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...Baghdad in 1863 that he was the one foretold by the Bab. He was called Baha'u'llah, meaning, the "Glory of God"; most of the Bab's known as Baha'is. Further exile took Baha'u'llah to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of Akka (in present day Israel) where he remained a prisoner until his death...
...Israel at this point would estrange the moderate Arab opinion that the new U.S. Middle East policy is trying to foster. Nasser was already systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
...obstructions in the Suez Canal, the Egyptians were sure that the hardest to remove would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...Anglo-French salvage vessels have all but cleared away a third at Port Said. Last week U.N. salvage ships, including British and French vessels now finishing their job in Port Said under the U.N. flag, pulled out three smaller wrecks and tied into half a dozen more. The LST Akka remains the big obstacle, and the commander of the force assigned to it has not yet decided whether he can cut and remove it piecemeal, or will be forced to blow it apart with resulting damage to the canal. Nonetheless there was now optimistic talk of clearing the canal...
...Panama Canal engineer, some 23 ships of six nations stood in to attack the blockage in three task forces-one clearing smaller wrecks around Port Said, two others working from opposite ends of the canal to join at Ismailia in clearing the cement-laden hulk of the Egyptian LST Akka, by far the toughest single salvage job. The U.N. fleet, said General Wheeler, will be built up to 30 vessels and will operate under a consortium of experienced Dutch and Danish firms. If all goes according to plan, said Wheeler, the canal should be open in May for the biggest...