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...punches the accelerator of his Peugeot 504 station wagon and breaks into a smile. Peace has brought him tangible dividends. Each morning, for four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
...sure, world events, real or promised, such as the Suez war and Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Henry Kissinger's "Peace is at hand" statement in 1972, have influenced voters on the eves of past elections. But neither of those was a close race, and never before has the decision on so emotional an issue as the hostages been so totally under the control of a foreign government...
...sign marks the headquarters of N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. in London's financial district-only a shield with five red arrows, symbolizing the five sons of the dynasty's founder. The House of Rothschild, which once helped British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli buy the Suez Canal, needs no identification. Last week sixth-generation members of one of Europe's oldest and wealthiest families were fighting over the use of their name. Evelyn de Rothschild, 49, chairman of the 176-year-old N.M. Rothschild bank, forced his cousin Jacob, 44, to stop using the family name...
...summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps has punched to within 15 miles of Alexandria. The Germans are now only a Heil away from British-ruled Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, the German commander consistently outmaneuvers the Brits, even to the point of seizing the key bastion of Tobruk. For Rommel has a secret weapon: Alex Wolff, a.k.a. Achmed Rahmha, German-born, Berlin-trained spy, who early in life had been adopted by an Arab stepfather...
London and Paris were thus prompted to mount the first joint Franco-British military effort since the Suez crisis of 1956. Warned of the troops' imminent arrival, Stevens declared that they were coming at his request. At week's end, the French said that the Central Government had come to a tentative agreement with the now more amenable rebels...