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Show e & bypt’s Mightiest Work Since the Pyramids 14A Daily Herald SUNDAY,APRIL5,1964 FFirst Stage of High Aswan Dam Near Finish Say WESLEY G. PIPPERT United Press International ASWAN, U. A. R. (UPI) — ¥ High Aswan Dam, Egypt’s Mightiest work since the Pyraids, is nearing completion of it first stage. Untold amounts of electrical energy will light the Nile Valley all the way Cairo when the entire job is ished. “By May 15 the Egyptians will block off the Nile River miles upstream from its original course. This will divert river through six tunnels ved out of a mountain of anite — the same material ed 6,000 years ago to help ad the Pyramids. sThe diversion will actually Sen the floodgates” to the systematic apportionment of pw - wasted water into milons of acres of barren desert. =At least 42 kings and presi- dents from around the world are expected to participate in the celebration marking formal @osure of the dam, which already represents a significant victory for the East over the amongthe 30,000 workers at the damsite. There are several West. complexes of several apartment Red Money, Know - How Much of the technical know- buildings each — all built by how and money has come from the Russians. Russia. The government of Ga- The Nile flows northward, mel Abdel Nasser is quick to which gives it the appearance cite the ‘friendship, mutual un- on a mapof flowing “‘up.”” At a derstanding and full coopera- point about six miles south of tion” that have existed between the old winter resort city of the Soviets and the Arabs in Aswan, the dam workers are dumping granite rock and dune the huge project. The High Aswan Dam is one sand into the river. The emof the sore spots between Nas- bankment will rise above the level and stretch ser and the West. In 1956, when water Nasser took over the Suez Ca- complete across the river for nal, Britain and the United the first time by May 15. States withdrew their plans to The diversion channel part of help Egypt construct the high the dam formsa sort of broad “U” attached to the east side dam. Nasser went ahead with Rus- of the original river bed. Much sian help. On Jan. 9, 1960, he of the channel was cut through pushed a button to begin work solid granite. Whenwater flows through the on a dam that dwarfs the mighty, mile - wide earthen tunnels on May 15th it will bedams of the Missouri River ba- gin to gather to the south of sin — the Oahe of Scuth Da- the dam and Temple Phasael kota and the Garrison of North will be inundated. In another tremendousproject, the Temple Dakoa. Russian equipment and 1,800 Abu Simbel is being elevated Russians are much in evidence to stand above the reservoir. Although flood control will begin almost immediately on this river from which the child Moses wasrescued,it will take eight or nine years to fill the reservoir. Power lines will carry electricity from Aswan to Cairo. The Egyptians will save yearly about 74 billion cubic meters of water now being wasted by flowing into the sea and useit to irrigate two million acres in Egypt and five million acres in Sudan, Egypt’s neighbor to the south. 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