Word: canal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs clamored for a change in the name of the American University in both Beirut and Cairo to Palestine University, and Algeria compiled a list of "pro-Zionist" movie stars-including Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Harry Belafonte-and banned their films. On the banks of the Suez Canal, Egyptian commandos slipped across the canal nightly to harass the Israelis until finally, at week's end, they precipitated a pitched battle with Israeli forces...
Asleep for three centuries, the Arabs awoke from isolation when Napoleon took Egypt in 1798. At first they were fascinated by Western ideas, from mixed bathing to parliamentary democracy. Western imperialism, symbolized by the Suez Canal, changed the fascination to hostility. Britain "temporarily" occupied Egypt in 1882-and stayed 75 years. By 1914, Britain, France, Italy and Spain owned all of North Africa, manipulating puppet princes, exempting themselves from local law and suffocating local initiative. European goods carried little or no duty; native industries were taxed to death. Britain long held spending for Egyptian education to 1% of the budget...
...project, besides providing rural electricity, will include ship and barge locks, making the Paraná navigable and giving the interior an outlet to the sea at Rio de la Plata. Moreover, the northernmost tributaries of theParaná nearly touch the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Engineers suggest that a canal might eventually join the rivers so that a vessel could enter South America at the mouth of the Amazon, do business along the interior route, and exit at Buenos Aires...
...other countries. Nonetheless, Arab oil, which supplied one-third of the world's needs until the outbreak of last month's Arab-Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape of Good Hope, sorely taxing the world's tanker capacity in the process...
...normal 2,600,000 bbl. a day. No better off is Iraq, which depends on oil for 80% of its income, but has resumed shipments beyond the Arab world only to France and Turkey. Nasser's bankrupt United Arab Republic is losing $700,000 a day in Suez Canal revenue, has not begun clearing the canal...