Word: cementation
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...have at least one cause for applause last week as a result of its accords with Sadat. For the first time since 1959, a ship with Israel-bound cargo was about to go through the Suez Canal: the Greek vessel Olympus, loaded with some 8,000 tons of cement from Rumania. In addition, Sadat figured in Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's decision to postpone his scheduled visit to the U.S. from November to December, or even later. Mainly, Rabin wishes to avoid U.S. pressure to negotiate an accord with Syria on the Golan Heights before the U.N. mandate...
...exactly what his reception will be. Although there may be some picketing by Jewish Defense League activists, Sadat will be feted at the White House, address a joint session of Congress, and travel to cities including Williamsburg, Houston and Chicago. Says a high White House official: "We hope to cement Sadat to us and lay the groundwork for a new relationship between Egypt and Israel...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...
More than half the waiting ships are loaded down with cement, 2.4 million tons of it. And that's only a part of the order. In all, Nigeria somehow managed to contract for 21 million tons of cement, about ten times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether...
Nigeria's economy, as one official puts it, is "suddenly encased in a wave of cement." The country is paying a demurrage charge of $4,000 a day to many of the backed-up ships; total cost in the past six months: $18 million. Unscrupulous shipowners, the government believes, have added to the shambles by putting old tubs into line to collect demurrage, since it is more than they can make on the high seas. Paperwork is so fouled up that one shipper collected for demurrage and for cargo, even though he docked with nothing in his hold...