Word: wadi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food and water to last three days and hired a Nubian boy to guide them through the desert...
Uncertain Guide. For nearly three weeks, searching parties crisscrossed the scorching desert, and helicopters hovered over the deep desert canyons. Though the travelers had been seen at the U.A.R. border post of El Shallal, they had never turned up at Wadi Haifa. Those whom the police questioned were shocked to hear that anyone had attempted the trip in two small cars not specially equipped for the desert: since all roads and railways end at Aswan, the only really safe way to make the trip is by Nile steamer. The adventurers had either not known this or not cared...
Black Gold. The effects of American aid to Libya are everywhere: the desert is beginning to bloom under U.S. irrigation engineers in places such as Wadi Caam, barren since the Roman aqueducts crumbled away. Last year the U.S. built 37 schools and equipped five teachers' training colleges (the nation has only 25 college graduates). In what may prove the greatest boon of all to the Libyan standard of living, after four years of probing the desert crust for oil, Esso Standard (Libya) last month drew an astonishing 17,500 bbl. a day in a test run of its first...
...Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt...
...World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles to Yei, at the border of the Belgian Congo...