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...route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years of completion. It proved...
...October war had ended with both armies hunkered down along the Suez Canal in a hazardous politico-military tangle. Kissinger began the negotiations on disengagement by going to each side and asking, in effect, "What would you like to get out of this situation? What are the minimum requirements with which you would be satisfied?" From then on, it was a matter of trying to reconcile the two positions, trying to make one side see and understand the other's conditions, suggesting subtle adjustments here and there?all the while keeping a basic concept in sight...
...investment is necessary, contends the Pentagon, to counter the Soviet naval presence in the area, which now averages 30 ships; the U.S. presently has eight ships, including the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, there. The Russian presence is expected to increase even more with the reopening of the Suez Canal. Then the Soviet supply line, from its Black Sea bases to the Straits of Malacca, will shrink from 11,000 miles around the Cape of Good Hope to 2,200 miles through the canal...
...Talk is his forte, and the talk in this book is uninspired. But the action is sharp, and Higgins provides some hilarious glimpses of the home life of the North American gorilla - one thug is on cortisone for colitis, another takes a contract because his wife needs some root-canal work. Cogan himself is a memorable meanie, easily the reptile of the month...
...prepared to come to an agreement. But we want to see if Sadat really starts to operate the Suez Canal, if he really starts rebuilding the cities along the canal, if he really becomes involved with economic development. A man who does all that will not begin a war that would destroy...