Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposal No. 2: Israel, in return for withdrawal, must be secured against a renewal of Egyptian action which led to the original attack, e.g., by assurances that Egypt will not reoccupy the Gulf of Aqaba area, from which it was able to blockade Elath, Israel's one port to the South...
...days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm el Sheikh and Tiran, the strongholds from which Nasser had blocked their access to the gulf and the port of Elath...
...Sickened by successive retreats from Indo-China, Morocco and Tunisia, and enraged by the withdrawal from Port Said, many among the professional officers of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria appeared determined that the French army must not be involved in yet another retreat from empire. Should Mollet show signs of giving in to Algerian demands for independence, much of the army might well support Algeria's reactionary French colons in open defiance of the government...
...small that salvage vessels can haul them away in a few hours. One mighty heave by the two big lifting vessels pulled away half of the Firdan bridge, which was one of the eleven major obstructions. Anglo-French salvage vessels have all but cleared away a third at Port Said. Last week U.N. salvage ships, including British and French vessels now finishing their job in Port Said under the U.N. flag, pulled out three smaller wrecks and tied into half a dozen more. The LST Akka remains the big obstacle, and the commander of the force assigned...
...sisal bags. He held a monopoly on all three products, and kept the profit margin high. Meanwhile his two brothers were uncommonly successful in a variety of enterprises, including the country's largest tobacco exporting firm. Another money-making deal involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens of businessmen stepped forward to confess that profit-sharing with the President had been...