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...then there's 1956, and Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, effectively cutting Israel off from a major supply route. Taking this to be an act of war, Israel crossed the Sinai to free the canal (with American, French, and British help). Clearly, this, too, is blind, naked aggression. Why Should the Israelis be allowed to trade with other countries, anyway...
...example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government made plans to pipe it out of the territory rather than build a refinery on the spot, which would have generated jobs in the economically depressed region. In addition, some southerners fear that the Jonglei Canal, a huge project to divert water northward from the White Nile, will turn parts of the south into a desert...
...army units to the north. The troops mutinied, charging that the move violated the 1972 accord. In crushing that uprising the government killed at least 70 mutineers. But the unrest continued. On Nov. 15, southern rebels kidnaped eleven British, French and Pakistani workers from the oilfields and the Jonglei Canal...
...survey, conducted in the Seattle area, showed that for every 100,000 births the incidence rose from 2.6 cases between 1966 and 1969 to 11.9 cases between 1979 and 1981. In 1982 the figure jumped to 17.2. In most cases, infants become infected during passage through the birth canal of a mother who has active genital herpes. In a few other instances, children have been exposed to the virus shortly after birth, perhaps through contact with cold sores. Treatment with antiviral agents that became available in the late 1970s has reduced the mortality rate of infected babies from...
...AFFAIRS is another area where the Californian has made a sharp break from the past, both in policy and in conventional wisdom. In this portion of the museum, scholars will for the first time get a glimpse at valuable documentation showing that the United States actually owned the Panama Canal (contrary to the 1903 treaty) and that North and South Vietnam had been two separate countries for centuries (despite volumes of history books and years when both were ruled by the same government, excepting periods of Chinese and French colonization). Bolstering the United States strategic forces...