Word: canal
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...disappear, the arrival of the cohos is the best news imaginable. Gone is the plentiful supply of lake trout, burbot, walleyes and pike that once made the lakes a fisherman's paradise. The fierce sea lamprey which invaded the lakes from the Atlantic by way of the Welland Canal, gradually wiped out the game fish. The lampreys were eventually controlled by chemicals, but in their wake came a 6-in. saltwater trash fish, the alewife (TIME, July 7, 1967), which monopolized the lakes. Four years ago, the Michigan Department of Conservation tried a bold gambit: it transported coho...
...Balboa, Canal Zone...
...clear desert air, Israeli outposts along the Suez Canal were readily visible targets for Egyptian gunners. The Egyptians aimed their artillery well in advance. Then last week, they suddenly opened up along the 70 miles of the canal with the heaviest sustained barrage that the Arabs have succeeded in laying on the Israelis since their hostilities began in 1948. As shells whined in around them, the surprised Israelis fired back. In a 31-hour duel before both sides bowed to a United Nations cease-fire call, the Egyptians killed ten Israeli soldiers and wounded 18. Israeli shells killed five Egyptian...
That artillery ambush signaled the opening of a fresh front of harassment, this time along the canal, which has been more or less quiescent since last year's Six-Day War. It was also a measure of the renewed aggressiveness and confidence of the Egyptian army, which has been demonstrating increasing boldness in other ways as well. Bedouins have lately probed deep into the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula, successfully mining major Israeli roads and getting within twelve miles of strategic Mitla Pass. In one raid last month, an Egyptian patrol killed two Israeli soldiers and kid naped a third...
...with Advise and Consent, Drury exploits the current climate of violence that presages what he calls "the Savage Seventies." His U.S. is still involved in fighting bad guys at home and Communism abroad. There is a back-burner struggle in Panama, where a plot is stewing to steal the canal. At the same time, America is escalating a hot war to protect its interests in an independent African territory called Gorotoland...