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...firmest support possible would be a proposal from the United States to put all similar international waterways under a special type of international control. Outright ownership and operation would remain with the nation involved--Egypt in the case of Suez, the United States in Panama, Germany in the Kiel Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...
...busiest men in West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez...
...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...
...West German Plant Conservation Service at Kiel and the Soviet zone's Central Biological Office together maintain irrigation works that straddle the border, wage joint war against animal epidemics and that old enemy of German agriculture, the potato...
...study at the Free University of Berlin, August 1 to 15, in the Allied zone of the city. For the less hardy, German language and culture courses are taught to students on different levels at the Universities of Bonn, Frankfort, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, and Tubingen in August, Heidelberg and Kiel in July...