Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four weeks Arabic-speaking U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare patiently tried to persuade the Egyptians to make the plan more satisfactory to the West by 1) changing it from a unilateral declaration of intention into something more formal, e.g., a multilateral treaty, 2) writing into it formal arrangements for cooperation between Egypt and canal users, and 3) acknowledging the six-point, Western-sponsored canal resolution voted by the United Nations Security Council last October. In talks with Nasser and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, Hare did manage to get them to make some minor improvements in their original version...
...Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler left his office in the U.N. canal-clearance headquarters, appeared on the canal bank to salute the ship's captain and wave to the passengers...
...point Nasser was adamant: the canal would be run exclusively by Nasser's Suez Canal authority, with no advice from anyone. But after weeks of talk in Cairo between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company...
...portrait in The Grapes of Wrath of poverty-stricken Okies fleeing their drought-struck land, had at last forgiven him. After Steinbeck told an ABC-TV interviewer that "I've spoken against dust and I've spoken against poverty, but never against Oklahoma," Oklahoma's Governor Raymond Gary named him a member of the Governor's Staff of Oklahoma Boosters...
...anybody but a professional negotiator, the progress made in the U.S.'s negotiations with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was imperceptible. But U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare reportedly detected hope in the long talks he has been conducting in Cairo with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and the Egyptian attitude is described as polite and reasonable. As a result, the U.S. decided against taking the problem to the U.N. Security Council, where there is also a strong likelihood that Soviet Russia would veto any formula that might conceivably suit both Egypt and Western user nations...