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...became the first nation to recognize the newly created state of Israel. Relations reached their lowest ebb during the Eisenhower Administration. In 1956, Israeli forces, together with British and French troops, invaded Egypt after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. At U.S. urging, the British and French pulled out within two months, but the Israelis remained behind. Dwight Eisenhower lambasted Israel on national TV in February 1957 and privately threatened economic sanctions. Two weeks later the Israelis withdrew...
...diary, which Editor Mossman has used to illuminate the letters, we also learn that Pasternak's brother Alexander was a member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted...
...detonations of warheads having an explosive yield larger than 150 kilotons. (Detonations above ground or under sea are prohibited by a previous treaty.) The 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNE) provides for the same explosive limits if nuclear blasting should ever be used in such enterprises as mining or canal digging. TTBT requires a U.S.-Soviet exchange of relevant data, which can then be checked against seismic sensor readings. PNE goes even further: U.S. negotiators persuaded the Soviets to allow U.S. inspectors to watch and measure any blasts. (Of course, the Soviets in turn could observe U.S. detonations...
...that the state can resell homes it bought from fleeing homeowners and begin rehabilitating the neighborhood. The day after the EPA issued its report, the agency allocated $7 million to build new water-treatment plants in the area and extend the clay "cap" that now partly covers the canal...
...Love Canal report was released the same week that the EPA set new standards for hazardous waste disposal on land, culminating six years of tug-of-war between corporations and citizens' groups. The Environmental Defense Fund, which has been sharply critical of the EPA, described the new guidelines as "a mixed bag"; the public interest group claimed that the regulations were adequate to control new dumps but not restrictive enough on the 2,000 hazardous sites already in existence. Nonetheless, the EPA's 500-page rulebook requires the monitoring of contamination levels near waste sites...