Word: suez
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Under Thatcher the country has asserted itself more on the world stage than at any other time since the 1956 loss of the Suez Canal, an event widely regarded as the end of Britain's days as a major world power. She presided over the 1982 victory against Argentina in the Falklands war, and despite domestic opposition, pressed ahead with the modernization of Britain's aging Polaris nuclear submarine fleet, accepted U.S. cruise missiles on British soil and last year allowed U.S. F-111s to strike Libya from British air bases. Her visit to Moscow in April, during which...
Macmillan came to power during a brief but crucial episode in British history. In 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt in response to Cairo's nationalization of the Suez Canal. But the British soon withdrew, confronted by the Eisenhower Administration's objections to the operation and a rising tide of criticism at home. In so doing, they also had to face a fact that they had resisted until then: the sun had set on the British Empire. After Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, ostensibly for health reasons, the Conservative Party chose Macmillan, a veteran politician, as his replacement...
...fought is ridiculous. In 1948, even before the establishment of Israel, the Jewish underground forces undertook a campaign of terror to drive the Palestinians from their native land. In 1956, Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt for the great crime of having nationalized its own territory, the Suez Canal Zone. In 1967, Israel launched its attack on Egypt, knowing full well that Egyptian President Abdel-Nasser was desparately seeking a way to avoid a military confrontation. While the 1973 war was initiated by the Arabs, the intent of the offensive--as evidenced by the extent of Egyptian advance...
...having been a double agent for the Soviet Union. He charges the service with bugging friendly French and West German embassies in London and breaking into Soviet consulates abroad. Wright also says MI5 was involved in a plot to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser during the 1956 Suez crisis. The accusations are not new: since retiring in 1976, Wright has pursued a campaign to make his charges known. Moreover, other authors have published similar allegations...
Once his passengers had disembarked at Alexandria, Captain Gerardo De Rosa ordered the anchor raised, and soon the Achille Lauro was sailing for Port Said, at the northern approach to the Suez Canal, under a brilliant blue sky. + There, late that evening, he was scheduled to pick up the passengers who had gone to Cairo and proceed to the Israeli port of Ashdod...