Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs under both King Farouk and President Nasser, leaned over the horseshoe table and started to talk. First, bald Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users of the canal." When the foreign ministers around the table heard that word "cooperation," they had their answer...
...rushed to capitalize on it, and President Eisenhower told his TV campaign "press conference" that "it looks like a very great crisis is behind us." Lloyd and Pineau had booked plane seats for return home, but they postponed their flights. After talking with Dulles, they withdrew their original anti-Egyptian resolution and prepared...
...goal of the closed negotiations had to be something else than a full Egyptian about-face. The idea may be not to find a settlement in itself, said one of the ministers, but merely to explore whether there is any basis at all for try ing to negotiate a settlement...
Inches to Spare. At the outset there was a certain amount of tension on the bridge. Shiaty is an oldtimer with 27 years at sea and 10 on the canal, one of three Egyptian pilots who reached first-class rating (none held master's rating) under the old company, and one of seven available pilots (four top-class Greeks also stayed on) qualified to handle big ships under the old company standards...
...Egypt, with airfields only ten minutes' flying time from Tel Aviv, has bought some 200 MIG-15 jet fighters and 40 to 50 Ilyushin jet bombers from the Soviet Union. Even with her new Canadian-built Sabres and French Mysteres, Israel will still be numerically outclassed by the Egyptian Air Force, hopes to equip a third squadron with 24 additional top-flight jet interceptors wherever she can buy them...