Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizzling streets of Cairo and Alexandria were charged with happiness and excitement as 23 million Egyptians took a long holiday last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Nasser's revolution, the first anniversary of the seizure of the Suez Canal. On a hundred triumphal arches banners proclaimed: "Egypt, Tomb of Aggressors." "Nasser, Hero of Peace." From radios and loudspeakers all over the great (pop. 2,100,506) city of Cairo, the Big Brotherly voice of Nasser could be heard everywhere...
...first time, he spelled out details of how Egypt hoped to build the Aswan High Dam on a do-it-yourself basis, e.g., drawing on Suez Canal revenues (which gave him foreign exchange he did not have before) for the $172 million needed before 1962 for the project's scaled-down first phase...
...anniversary of his revolution, July 23, 1952, is one of President Nasser's great occasions. At last year's Cairo blowout, he announced seizure of the Suez Canal Co. This year he planned to inaugurate the first session of his new one-party Parliament, and his followers hoped for new excitements...
...Panama Canal Zone, scene of modern medicine's victory over malaria, has reported 67 cases since June 1. Partly explained by a drought that has turned lakes into shallow, mosquito-breeding pud-dies, the outbreak is largely due to changes in control measures in surrounding Republic of Panama. ¶ Britain, which allows narcotics addicts to receive small maintenance doses legally and cheaply, reported only 333 known addicts. Medical professions supplied a whopping 30% of them: 77 doctors, 20 nurses, two dentists...
...failure of last fall's invasion of Egypt, he concluded, Britain no longer has a specific individual role to play in the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean (Friend Iraq would be defended by the Baghdad Pact as a whole). "The emphasis has shifted south of the Suez Canal to the Arabian peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdoms, including Kuwait, remain Britain's special concern and might have to be defended by Britain alone, especially against local disturbances. This meant that Cyprus, lying on the wrong end of the lost canal, was no longer...