Word: itamar
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Vice President Itamar Franco would be sworn in as President with a mandate of up to six months and face the daunting tasks of cobbling together a government and reviving a paralyzed economy. Nonetheless, Latin America's biggest nation would display one sign of a mature democracy: for the first time resolving a government crisis by strict constitutional means, without military intervention. But it is too early for relief that "the system works." Collor might confuse matters by trying to exercise some authority as a shadow president while suspended. And there is a slim chance that he will beat...
...veered across what is now the Suez Canal near the town of Qantara, and approached Lake Timsah near Ismailia, where old canal remnants have previously been found. Though wind, sand and irrigation works have wiped out much of the canal's course, Geologists Amihai Sneh, Tuvia Weissbrod and Itamar Perath hint at an intriguing possibility: the waterway may have split in two, one branch following a great east-west depression called Wadi Tumilat to link with the Nile, the other continuing south into the Red Sea along a route that became part of a canal system later built...