Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun, the U.S. should have used the threat of its fleet, if necessary, to guarantee that the attack would be successful and bring Nasser's downfall. The U.S., he adds, should never have taken its case against the aggressors to the United Nations until the Suez Canal was in British-French hands, and there, somehow managing not to look like aggressors, the Americans should have backed up the British and French "by skillful and artful means...
While the British gave way on one big Suez question, they were busily negotiating with the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold on a second: the clearing of the canal. The British wanted the U.N. to use the British 20-ship salvage fleet to clear the remaining 13 wrecks in Port Said harbor, and to help remove wrecks lodged farther south in the canal. The U.N. wanted these ships, especially six lifting craft, but the sticking point was their crews. Nasser refused to contemplate British and French sailors' sailing up and down the canal...
...prepared to clear the Suez Canal (if not its clouded title), the U.N.'s next and much tougher task is to establish its Emergency Force along the Egyptian-Israeli 1949 armistice line, some 120 miles to the east. To judge by the beginnings, this may take a long time. In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion announced that "under no circumstances" would Israel agree to return the captured Gaza Strip of Palestine territory to Egypt. And in the Sinai desert, advancing Yugoslav elements of the UNEF found that the retreating Israelis had skillfully scorched the earth...
...Israelis pulled slowly back along their three invasion roads, they tore up or blew up the shoreline railway tracks, chopped down telegraph poles, and dynamited even railworkers' huts. The most awesome destruction they wrought on the roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal, the blacktop central road abruptly changed into a jumble of shredded rock. Giant-pronged Israeli machines similar to the "rooters" with which retreating Germans and Italians wrecked roads and railroads in World War II had ripped the pavement to a depth of 12 to 18 in. Last week gangs of Egyptian workmen...
...canalside headquarters UNEF Commander General Eedson L.M. Burns noted that the Israelis had agreed to withdraw 35 miles from the canal by mid-December, and to pull back 15 miles a week from then on. At that rate, which Burns called "not conformable with the U.N. resolution," Gaza was five weeks away. "There's nothing to prevent their going right back to the line immediately," he added tartly...