Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final aim of British policy is not to control Egypt . . . or even the Suez Canal, which should be an international responsibility. It is to create a stable and defensible structure in the Middle East; and while one necessity for this is certainly a firm base in the Canal Zone, another is the cooperation of Egypt and other Arab nations...
...protests against the search led in turn to a telephone call relayed from Britain's sorely tried Suez Commander in Chief Sir George Erskine to Egyptian Interior Minister Serag el Din. General Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...
Namias believes that in the north temperate zone the chief cause of weather changes is a high-altitude wind that roars from west to east around the earth. It is strongest and most constant above 10,000 ft., sometimes reaching 200 m.p.h., but it drags low-level air along, whipping up the disturbances that affect the weather on the surface...
...wing's hospital is a jerry-built wooden structure whose ceiling drips water. The wing itself-the only U.S. tactical air outfit anywhere in France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only four months...
Angry Boom. Despite the brief pause for refreshments, Egypt's unforgiving nationalists continued their fight with Britain. At the northern end of the Suez Canal Zone, Prince Fuad's royal salutes were echoed in the rattle of gunfire at Port Said, during a four-hour clash between Britons and guerrillas. In Cairo and Zagazig, the funerals of six Egyptians killed in a clash at Tell el-Kebir led to further rioting. Mourners charged on nightclubs and movie houses like so many Carry Nations, demanding a cessation of frivolity out of respect to the dead...