Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody's Secrets. One day last week at teatime, Nasser's government rounded up two Britons and half a dozen Egyptians. Shortly thereafter, the Egyptian information chief announced that the two Englishmen-James Swinburn, 51, of the British-owned Arab News Agency and Charles Pittuck, 47, of the Marconi Radio & Telegraph Co. had made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just...
...Nasser the squeeze caused by the tying up of Egypt's sterling accounts is already starting to hurt. Last week Saudi Arabia eased things a bit by putting up $10 million for Egypt's use against an equivalent sum in Egyptian pounds, and Nasser and his Finance Minister talked long with Russian Ambassador Kiselev about more help from the Soviet bloc. The No. i problem: paying for the 600,000 tons of wheat Egypt must import in the next nine months. Buying it as usual on the world market would use up $47 million, or half...
...nationalized Egyptian authority has tried to keep things going by signing up 50 more Egyptian pilots-but experience (including a two-year trial period) matters very much. Cross winds, currents, fogs and narrow channels make Suez piloting tricky work, and a single accident can jam the canal for a week or more. At week's end the hard-pressed Egyptians were reportedly trying to lure Kiel Canal pilots to the Suez by offering them up to three times their $400-a-month German salaries...
After two minor attacks on Israelis in the Negev desert, two parties of Israelis carried out separate ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...Perpetuity." Not only are Panama's technical and geographical realities different from Suez's, but so is the juridical status. The Suez Canal was owned and operated by an Egyptian-chartered private company under a 99-year franchise. The Panama Canal is owned and operated by the U.S. Government under a 1903 bilateral treaty in which Panama granted the U.S. "use, occupation and control" of the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone "in perpetuity," plus "all the rights, power and authority . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...