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Sadat also announced that the Suez Canal would be reopened June 5 - the eighth anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel's troops reached the east bank of the waterway, resulting in its closing. Although Sadat did not indicate whether Israeli ships or cargo would be allowed to transit the canal, its reopening and the repopulating by Egyptians of towns along its banks have been awaited as concrete signs that Cairo prefers to pursue a policy of peace. He warned, however, that Egypt was capable of protecting the canal: "We possess a deterrent capacity that makes our enemy...
...worse time or in a worse place. The Malacca Strait is a key short cut in the "lifeline" route followed by most supertankers on the long voyage from the Persian Gulf to Japan. Japanese officials had just completed a survey of ship traffic through the narrow, heavily traveled waterway. As the slick was spreading, they were meeting with authorities from the Strait nations to discuss the survey and consider new safety regulations for ship traffic. Now they fear that the oil spill may lead to new restrictions on supertankers in the Strait. If that happens, many of the tankers will...
...size from hand grenades to rockets and aerial bombs, have been disarmed by Egyptian, American, French and British divers. The task force, which is headed by U.S. Admiral Kent Carroll, has salvaged the wrecks often large ships and more than 100 small boats and barges along the 101-mile waterway. Though the clearing operation is all but complete, the canal will not be reopened for commercial shipping until next March. Whether or not ships will be able to use the canal, however, depends in large measure on further progress in Middle East negotiations...
...plans for a longterm, $7 billion reconstruction of the Canal Zone. Technically, the canal could be opened as early as next March or April (four Egyptian vessels, in fact, sailed its full length last week), but Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy insists that his country will not reopen the waterway until Israeli forces have made a further withdrawal in the Sinai...
...detonate all the explosives in the canal and along its banks and to clear it of wreckage. Throughout its 107-mile length, the canal is littered with the detritus of war. In a segment only one kilometer long, British minesweepers have detected 180 objects. In other parts of the waterway, tanks, trucks, boats and twelve large ships are sunk and await a massive salvage effort. An additional 16 ships, with skeletal crews guarding them, are rusting but still afloat in the Great Bitter Lake, trapped since the 1967 fighting...