Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some face-saving way of settling the problems of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Humphrey's final reassurance on behalf of the U.S.: "We don't want a grain of sand from your deserts, a stone from your pyramids, or a drop of water from your canal. We don't even want your gratitude. All we want is peace...
...private foreign investments is the U.S. Government. When private capital abroad gets into local squabbles, the State Department is usually the first to "take it easy" or "do not strain relations at this time," etc. When the banana-republic dictator Nasser decided to nationalize someone else's Suez Canal, nations prepared for war in order to protect it, but we succeeded in helping to give it to the nationalizing thief...
Gateway to Justice. Last week, after a thorough restudy of the evidence, Public Prosecutor Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni...
Britain's capitulation left France and Israel still defiant of Egypt, but in different ways-Israel eager to use the canal immediately, France angrily hoping to continue a Boycott for better terms. ''Little by little all our friends are walking out on us in felt slippers . . . even Britain, our comrade in misfortune last November," sighed France's L'Economie. But the show of outrage put up by France's Premier Guy Mollet had more to do with internal politics than foreign policy. French shipping interests were no more eager than the British to lose...
...Sooner or Later." In the midst of all the dignified swallowing of pride that was going on, Israel proclaimed that it was about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal...