Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forget, the Israeli seems to say, the incredible war of 1948 in which the forces of one tiny nation defeated six invading Arab armies. Let no one forget the Six-Day War, when the Egyptians literally abandoned their shoes as they tried to get back across the Suez Canal, leaving their armored corps in a smoldering heap in the Mitla Pass. Let no one forget the "War of Attrition," including that memorable day in 1970 when the Israelis trapped Soviet MiGs just north of Cairo in a pincer of Phantoms and Skyhawks and shot down five of the Russian-piloted...
...always in the mood for unanimity. When a boat steaming along the delta was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, the Polish delegate reported that "it is possible that during a low tide the boat had seated itself on the explosive device lying on the bottom of a canal, thus causing the boat to sink...
...military emphasis was on collective hemisphere defense in the Cold War. By 1961, after Castro's takeover in Cuba and the emergence of guerrilla groups, the basis shifted to internal security within the hemisphere. The U.S. began to provide counter-insurgency training for officers in the Canal Zone. Equipment aid shifted from jets, tanks, and ships to jeeps, helicopters, grenades, and carbines. U.S. officials justified their actions by playing on the public's irrational fear of encroaching international communism...
Panama's decision to call a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Panama City was primarily intended to embarrass the U.S. for maintaining control of the Panama Canal-and it succeeded. On opening day, the delegates arriving at Panama's Legislative Palace faced a three-story billboard that declared in the five official U.N. languages: "You may rest assured that in our negotiations with the U.S. you will always find us standing on our feet and never on our knees. Never! Torrijos...
...world knows that the United States is ready to modernize our treaty arrangements with Panama to the mutual advantage of both countries." In fact, during the nearly two years of the latest round of negotiations, U.S. officials repeatedly agreed that Panama shoudl eventually be granted jurisdiction over the Canal Zone and a much larger share of canal shipping revenues (from $20 million to $25 million annually). The one sticking point is the timetable for U.S. withdrawl. Washington wants to provide for the defense of the canal (with Panama) for another 50 years or, if new locks are built, another...