Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Western mobs in Amman menaced the U.S. embassy; other mobs bombed and burned USIS buildings. But last week, as scholarly looking Ambassador William B. Macomber Jr., 40, motored along the Jordan valley, the crowds applauded. Macomber was on his way to opening ceremonies of the new East Ghor Canal, a U.S.-backed project that will bring badly needed irrigation waters from a River Jordan tributary, the Yarmuk, to the parched Jordan valley. Direct beneficiaries will be 3,800 needy farmers and their families...
Like a monstrous guillotine, the wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. It cuts through sewers and subways, severs bridges and thoroughfares. It bisects a cemetery, shears off churches and dwellings. Beside a green canal it becomes an ugly spaghetti-swarm of barbed wire. Along a quiet suburban street, its spine glints with jagged glass. The wall has separated sons from mothers, wives from husbands, friends from friends...
Some 30 refugees a day are still managing to vault the wall to reach freedom in the West, including in the last three weeks no fewer than 65 Vopos. But a young East German worker, put to felling trees along the Teltow Canal, leaped into the water to try to swim to freedom, was ruthlessly riddled with machine pistol fire-the second refugee to be killed trying to swim to freedom. Next day, despite a hail of bullets, a third swimmer made it. The Vopos promptly strung a double row of barbed wire along the canal...
...routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov in June 1945 to work out an agreement for highways, air corridors, rail and canal routes into Berlin, he decided not to put the final decision in writing. Clay's reason was that he did not want to imply that he had waived free access by any route. Wrote Clay later in his book, Decision in Germany: "I must admit that...
...Canal Fulton, Ohio, Summer Arena: Joe E. Brown in The Show...