Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Foreign Office termed Egypt's six-point memorandum on ground rules for the reopened Suez Canal disquieting in that it made no reference to six principles adopted by the U.N. last October as the basis for negotiations on the canal operations...
Nasser now wants the U.N. to do for him what he cannot do for himself: repel invaders, reopen the canal. But he has yet to indicate that he feels any obligation to the rest of the world. At the same time he complains that the U.S. is trying to isolate him. The isolation, which may increase, is his own doing...
Death Revealed. Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk, 65, Soviet engineer; cause of death, unreported; in Moscow. Though little known outside Russia, as director of such mammoth enterprises as the White Sea-Baltic Canal (opened in 1933), the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937), and the Volga-Don Canal (1952), he was the boss of the biggest projects built by forced labor since the Great Wall of China...
EUROPEAN OIL CRISIS is over, even if reopening of Suez Canal is delayed, says Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Oil supplies flowing to Europe will probably reach 85% of normal in first 1957 quarter (v. expected 75%), climb to 95% in second quarter...
WASHINGTON, March 17--Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont.) called today for a free world boycott of the Suez Canal and emergency action by the United Nations if Egyptian troops reoccupy the Gaza Strip...