Word: canale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Permanent peace in the Middle East seems more than ever a mirage in the desert of Arab-Israeli antipathies. Egyptian and Israeli artillery dueled across the Suez Canal last week with unsettling and dangerous regularity. The casualties of an uncertain truce are beginning to rise. Some 100 Egyptians were killed in last week's exchanges, along with half a dozen Israelis. In a growing war of Arab terrorism in Israeli-occupied territory, Israel lost its first lives since the war: a three-year-old child and two policemen...
...armed forces in the wake of the war, Amer was arrested last month with 50 other officers on charges of plotting against Nasser. As Nasser's semiofficial mouthpiece Al Ahram rather fancifully reported it, Amer had planned to seize command of Egyptian troops on the Suez Canal, demand full reinstatement for himself and the 800 officers who were arrested or sacked as part of Nasser's postwar effort to find a scapegoat for his shattering defeat. If Nasser refused, the story went, Amer would march on Cairo and set up a revolutionary council to run the country...
Such actions may have impressed Arabs-but not their Israeli conquerors, to whom true peace seems as distant as ever. Jordanian and Egyptian troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have...
Though the crisis was over, oil companies still faced continuing costly problems. The closing of the Suez Canal not only forces tankers to sail 4,700 miles farther around the Cape of Good Hope to European markets but has also caused such a price-boosting scramble to charter additional ships that the cost of hauling crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam has jumped from $2.90 to $18.60 a ton. Salvage experts figure that the handful of scuttled ships blocking the waterway could be cleared away in a month, but silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging...
...close to satisfying Israel. There were hints, for example, that the Arabs might agree to the peace plan being peddled by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. But Israel has already turned thumbs down on the idea that the Arabs, in return for their lost lands, would open the Suez Canal to Israeli cargoes, the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel shipping, and declare an end to the "state of hostilities" that has been in effect ever since Israel was created in 1948. Having settled for similar promises in 1956, the Israelis are not likely to repeat the error...