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...past Shepilov to shake the hand of France's moon-faced Christian Pineau. For the instigators of the session, Great Britain and France, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd leaned forward and put the issue: "We are determined to uphold our rights, rights properly secured and guaranteed, to free transit through this international waterway." It was an almost typical beginning for a debate on the world's most serious grievances. But it quickly became clear that the desire of most, if not all, was to get done with the oratory and slip into a closed room where the foreign...
...Iraq fields and Lebanon's Mediterranean port of Tripoli. The Lebanese in 1944 gave renewed approval to an old agreement to 1) let I.P.C. run its pipes through their country, 2) exempt the company from taxation, 3) submit all disputes to arbitration. In 1947, I.P.C. began paying transit fees to Syria and Lebanon, through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same amount (about $364,000 in 1948). Two years later I.P.C. built a giant third line to the Syrian port of Baniyas, began laying plans...
Then Syria demanded bigger transit fees. I.P.C. agreed, worked out a mileage-volume pipeline formula that would pay Syria $18 million annually, threw in an extra $23.8 million to settle past claims. Last January it offered the same arrangement to Lebanon, which asked pay equal to Syria's, though I.P.C.'s Lebanese lines traveled one-thirteenth the distance and carried half the volume...
...ship rounded the bend into Suez Harbor, elation broke out all over the bridge. Shiaty. beaming with pride, called: "You happy, Captain?" Said Coppola: "Ten hours! In the 30 years I've been going through the canal, this is the fastest transit. The last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down...
...Complaints concerning the 'tempo' involved high work norms, overtime (without pay, usually, for white-collar workers), long and difficult hours spent in transit to and from work, compulsory attendance at meetings outside regular working hours, precious time spent queuing up for scarce goods and strict laws of labor discipline which made one liable to strong penalties for being late to work...