Word: canalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHILE the State Department offered itself (and everyone else) tranquilizer pills, and Dag Hammarskjold landed in Cairo wearing a forbearing expression, Gamal Abdel Nasser, colossus of the canal, laid down his terms. They were enough to make the angry angrier, and Hammarskjold's task harder. But if there is little promise of a satisfyingly early comeuppance for Nasser, there are slow squeezes at work. See FOREIGN NEWS, Three Ways...
...reaffirmed joint support for European unity and German unification, 2) reminded the world in general and Dictator Nasser in particular that the U.S. and Britain still stick by the U.N. Security Council's October resolution on the rights of all nations to passage through the Suez Canal, and 3) set forth an unexpected joint declaration on nuclear-weapons tests. As long as Russia continues to block a general disarmament agreement, the communique said, the U.S. and Britain will have to continue "nuclear testing." Meanwhile, they will use "restraint" to keep radiation under hazard levels, and will permit Soviet observers...
...this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" In characteristically unclassical American, the tabloid New York Daily News asked: "What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy other than, in a kiddie-sized pet, dump rusty boats and assorted kitchen stoves into the Suez Canal?" The fact was that no happy solution could be seen emerging in the Middle East. In the anger of frustration, voices in Europe and America demanded that...
Just four months after Nasser had been saved (by the U.S. and U.N.) from military defeat, and had restored to him what his armies could not hold, Nasser announced last week that as soon as the U.N. clears the Suez Canal for him, he will insist on holding control over the transport systems, the factory-output levels and the room temperatures of Western Europe...
...plan, conspicuously omitting any reference to the principles "insulating the canal from politics" agreed on at the U.N. last October: Egypt runs the canal, sells all the tickets, keeps all the money...