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Your ”Assignment” column on Egypt (Aug. 19) tells how that country is seeking about $130 million from the United States to use sewage to transform part of the desert into cultivated land that would alleviate a severe food shortage and significantly reduce a huge flow of sewage into the Mediterranean at Alexandria.
While we spend over $160 million per day to create nuclear weapons that we dare not use, we have refused Egypt`s request that would be of signal benefit to them and our polluted planet.
In effect, we are saying to our fellow Egyptian passengers in the sinking lifeboat Earth, ”No, we won`t help you, the hole`s not in our end of the boat.”
