Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers and men, armed and equipped, were now under the Canadian U.N. commander, Eedson Burns; soon he would have...
...Cairo Nasser told TIME a different story. "At the beginning," said he, "British and French citizens were completely free. Then came Port Said. We got news that French and British civilians were shooting people in the streets from windows and doors. We kept this out of the Egyptian press by censorship, for fear it would provoke popular acts against British and French citizens. We decided to tell British and French citizens they could not leave their homes . . . About 2,000 of these people have asked for exit visas, and about 1,000 of them have gone." As for the Jews...
...regime continued to maintain the degree of control that had surprised so many outsiders. But there was an underlying hostility to the invaders that the regime could play on. The government ordered Egypt's 35,000 Jews to leave the country within 24 hours. In Anglo-French occupied Port Said, infiltrating guerrillas plastered the walls with big signs saying: DEATH IF YOU STAY. Shopkeepers closed their stores, and the hostility and resentment mounted to a peak as the first U.N. forces marched in. Yelling "British Go Home" and "Long Live Nasser," nearly 20,000 pajama-clad Egyptians crowded onto...
...East oil flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez. The colonel is all for Nasser and all for the Soviets. Last week Washington confirmed news reports that Soviet arms have lately been arriving in "a steady flow" at the rate of two shiploads a week at the Syrian port of Latakia...
...never knew hardship, was free to travel to Rome, voyage about France, take in Switzerland and Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite), was a clear handling of geometric masses that came within a brush stroke of anticipating the discoveries made years later by Cézanne...