Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month he set up his love-oriented radio station aboard a former Dutch coastal vessel, which roams 15 miles off the coasts of Israel and Lebanon. He has pledged not to leave the ship until it can sail through the Suez Canal and dock at Eilat...
veto last March of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a draft treaty guaranteeing Panama's claim to sovereignty over the Canal Zone. They are miffed, and also a bit puzzled over Nixon's inflexible attitude toward Cuba at a time when the U.S. is actively wooing China and the Soviet Union...
...Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, and Israeli armies, under secret pact with Britain and France, invade the Sinai peninsula...
...Egypt begins artillery and air War of Attrition across the Suez Canal, to wear down Israeli occupiers. Israel starts building first settlements in occupied territories...
...Ninety-day standstill cease-fire negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers begins along Suez Canal, later is renewed twice, then continued indefinitely...