Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet, "Operation Mousquetaire" was decided on, but not until the French had reluctantly agreed to accept Eden's "embarrassing judicial fiction that the intervention was aimed at separating the belligerents and protecting the Canal...
There still remains the question of Israel's right of access to the Suez Canal. Nasser, in a chat to visiting U.S. editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo...
...broadcast to the nation in February, Ike said: "We should not assume that, if Israel withdraws, Egypt will prevent Israeli shipping from using the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. If, unhappily, Egypt does hereafter violate the armistice agreement or other international obligations, then this should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations...
...vast museum containing some of the greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos and villas are becoming increasingly strapiombati...
...speaker stressed that the question of the huge oil reserves lay behind both the Suez Canal issue and the East-West controversy over the Middle East. He gave estimates which put the Middle East reserves between 67 and 75 percent of the world total...