Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, March 28--The United States counseled American ships today to steer clear of the Suez Canal...
Hammarskjold Sees Canal Cleared...
CAIRO, March 25--The last big plug was lifted from the Suez Canal today...
...painful confirmation to those, like Canada's Mike Pearson, who had argued that the U.N. should spell out what it asked of Nasser while there were still levers to use on him, instead of waiting until the U.N. had given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights...
...their bungled attack. At this point, most were happy to leave the problem on Ike's doorstep, and even perhaps ready to grant that Britain currently is in no position to assert its own will in the Middle East. Suffering from the effects at home of the blocked canal and fearing the loss of most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment of its bases and installations there-Britain can only urge that the U.S. do what the British would like...