Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roundup. During Christmas week, police and plainclothesmen swarmed into De Walletjes and rounded up a collection of pimps with such names as Fat Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
...solve the canal question by offering to annex Panama to the U.S.? Panama is already thoroughly gringoized. Offer Panama commonwealth status, its inhabitants American citizenship, its industry the American market. In time, along with Puerto Rico, it might be made a state. The two working together could preserve their Spanish heritage...
...with Panama, show the world the truly great meaning of liberty and justice by gracefully, stalwartly allowing the Panamanian flag to be raised in the Canal Zone, with all the dignity and solemnity a flag is worthy of; for is there a governmental treaty that can legally bestow upon a foreign government what rightfully belongs to the people-sovereignty...
...statue of Pharaoh Sesostris III will soon stand at the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal replacing the giant bronze figure of famed French Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps. Then the Egyptianizing of the canal will be complete. Already, under the new Egyptian management, the Suez Canal handled a record volume of traffic in 1959 without incident. The canal has become the United Arab Republic's most profitable operation, earning more than $100 million last year. Last week, obviously impressed by President Nasser's plans for increasing the international usefulness of the great waterway, the World Bank lent...
...making the loan, the bank ignored the objection of the Israeli government that Cairo does not allow its ships to pass freely through the canal.* For a time after the Suez invasion, the Egyptians allowed Israeli cargoes to go through in ships flying the flags of other nations. Then one day last May, Cairo stopped the Danish freighter Inge Toft on her maiden voyage to seize an Israeli cargo; Inge Toft and her crew have sat in Port Said ever since...