Word: unesco
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...Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the surrounding desert from Aswan to the Sudan. Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari...
...lack of strategy or coherent body of principles" guiding American educational aid to developing countries has led to "misfiring and waste" in many programs, Philip H. Coombs, Director of UNESCO'S International Institute for Educational Planing, said last night...
...UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the U.N. agency in charge of saving Abu Simbel, rejected the French dam in favor of a more imaginative Italian proposal to cut the whole temple free of the rock and lift it to the top of the cliff by hydraulic jacks. Once raised above the rising water, the temple would be safe indefinitely, and it would have an attractive site on the rim of the great new artificial lake. The lifting would cost $42 million plus $24 million for finishing...
...even $42 million is not available. Last week UNESCO Secretary-General René Maheu added up what had been gathered by passing the international hat. Egypt pledged $11.5 million. West Germany gave $1,845,000, Italy $1,800,000. India $714,000, Cuba $160.000. In all. 37 countries contributed, including Bolivia and Nepal, each of which gave $1,000, but the total is more than $22 million short...
...suggests covering the temple with a hollow pyramid sealed to keep out the water. The pyramid, says J. S. Chudha, a Kenya Indian practicing architecture in London, will be appropriate for Egypt. It could be built mostly of native materials and should not cost more than $8,400,000. UNESCO has not smiled on either British plan...