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...every department." The Army has come some way since then, and U.S. military installations round the world plan to mark the 200th anniversary this week with ceremonies and pageants. Later Army exhibits will emphasize contributions made by the military to civilian life. These include the building of the Panama Canal as well as some lesser-known examples of Army pioneering: development of freeze-dried foods and the invention of the aerosol...
...Sadat climbed aboard the 3,500-ton Soviet-built ship, named for the day in 1973 on which Egypt attacked Israeli positions in the occupied Sinai. With Sadat on her bridge, the October Six slipped her lines, gathered speed and at ten knots moved slowly southward into the Suez Canal; symbolic floating gates decorated with pharaonic designs parted to let her through. Another destroyer and three vessels filled with invited guests fell in line for a voyage to Ismailia, 48 miles away. Thus did jubilant Egyptians last week begin a two-day celebration of the reopening of their canal, eight...
With all the hoopla of the reopening, however, there are some who feel that the canal will never again attain the importance it had before 1967. Even before the closing, tanker-fleet owners had begun building giant superships of 100,000 tons or more that could not navigate the canal. In 1967, fully 74% of the world's tanker fleet could traverse the canal; today only 27% of the tanker fleet can use it. Thus, though Cairo last week almost doubled the tolls from what they were in 1967, Egyptian hopes of collecting $450 million a year from...
...Egyptians are well aware of the new realities of the shipping business, and are already planning to deepen and widen the canal to take bigger ships. Within three years they hope to accommodate ships of 53-ft. draft and 150,000 tons fully loaded (v. the present maximums of 38 ft. and 60,000 tons); within six years they want to be able to take ships of 67-ft. draft and 260,000 tons...
Even so, some experts consider Egypt's grandiose plans for expanding the Suez Canal to be way beyond the country's means. Before Lesseps first brought together the waters of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, 97 million cu. yds. of earth had to be excavated; the new plans would require the removal of 300 million cu. yds., a stupendous undertaking even with today's more advanced earth-moving equipment. The Egyptians are nonetheless confident. There is even some talk that the colossal bronze statue of Lesseps, torn to pieces and dumped in a Port Said shipyard...