Word: canale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than through a twisting, tortured no man's land of hills and scrub. The old Negev Desert border stretched a porous 160 miles. With the addition of Sinai, Israel's underbelly is now bounded by open water, save for the 107-mile stretch facing the Suez Canal. Israel's classic military victory on the Golan Heights of Syria has driven the Syrians well out of shelling reach of the Galilee villages that suffered random Arab bombardment for 19 years. And with the seizure of Nasser's airbases in the Sinai, the closest Egyptian jet field...
...Route 4, and trucks piled with rice, hogs, chickens and vegetables streamed toward Saigon. But the traffic was not nearly enough. Twenty-five miles farther south of Route 4 lies another major artery that is still clogged by Viet Cong terrorism. It is the 30-mile Mang Thit-Nicolai canal, which is the main waterway between the ricelands of the Delta and the rest of Viet Nam. Until only a few years ago, it was one of the country's busiest canals; the villages on its banks were among Viet Nam's most prosperous. But while most...
...late 1966, Premier Ky promised to reopen the waterway no later than May 31. In a determined effort to make good, he sent an army battalion and six 40-man rural-development teams into hamlets along the canal to combat Viet Cong influence. The V.C. countered by murdering local officials, and Ky failed to make his May deadline: parts of the canal are still intermittently under V.C. control...
...fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide has dried, the guides at the pyramids and Sphinx sit playing trictrac (a variation of backgammon) with each other. Egypt is losing $5,000,000 a week in revenues from the closing of the Suez Canal, where, along with more than a dozen other ships, a German freighter sits helpless with 5,000,000 eggs that are ready to spoil. And on the other side of the canal, the Israelis are sitting on the Sinai wells that produced half of Egypt's oil supply...
...meter (about 1 1/4 mile) race was held on Winnipeg's floodway, the world's second largest ditch after the Panama Canal. It is used to absorb the floodwaters of the Red River. The Pan-American Games authorities flooded three miles of the 26-mile floodway...