Word: canalizes
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...comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status of the Suez Canal, Israel v. the Arabs-which the U.S. intends to work for through...
...Announced, in reply to an urgent appeal by United Nations' Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, that the U.S. will lend the U.N. up to $5,000,000 to help meet the initial costs ($7,000,000 to $10,000,000) of Suez Canal clearance, with repayment "terms and arrangements" to be worked out later. Canada, Australia and six West European nations are expected to advance the rest. Still to come: agreement on a permanent plan to finance the total ($40 million) salvage...
...first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that it release the $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by Washington after Egypt seized the canal...
...obstructions in the Suez Canal, the Egyptians were sure that the hardest to remove would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...insisted that the United States should support an early resumption of negotiations on canal ownership, an unquestioned right of Israeli and all other ships to use the canal without any discrimination. He also urged that Nasser should not be permitted to obstruct canal clearance to gain political advantage...