RUSSIA: The Wheeler-Dealers

Just as Soviet Power Station. Minister Ignaty Novikov was all set to fly home after attending ground-breaking ceremonies for President Nasser's Aswan Dam, an urgent cable arrived from the boss. Putting off his departure, Novikov rushed to Nasser's palace with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's message: "The government of the Soviet Union hereby expresses its readiness to join in the construction of the second stage of the Aswan High Dam on the same terms as agreed for the first." Hours later, Nasser sent his "greatly overjoyed" acceptance.

Five years after arranging the historic guns-for-cotton...

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