The extensive role of American aid to Egypt, although little publicized, has been a significant factor in the improvement of relations between the two countries, according to a Cairo dispatch today in the Sunday Observer. The report noted that Egypt is the largest per capita consumer in the world of American surplus food, and stated that more than 80 percent of all wheat and flour used in Egyptian cities is provided by the Food for Peace Program. American loans have paid for 62 percent of all land reclamation undertaken in Egypt since the 1952 revolution, and the United States has financed the construction of nearly 3, 000 miles — 62 percent — of all paved roads built in that period, the reports said.
More than one quarter of all the health centers built in the country since 1952 were financed by the United States, and over 3, 000, 000 Egyptian children are fed by American volunteer agencies.
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