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Nasser Chrustschow Arif Sallal 1964 Nil.jpg
English:
Four presidents push the buttom to divide the Nile river (blow up a barrier) as the begin of construction of Assuan Dam (from left to right: Egypt´s president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Soviet Union leader Nikita Chrustchev, Iraq´s president Abd as-Sallam Arif, North Yemeni president Abdallah as-Sallal)
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