Word: canales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positive policy in the Middle East. The news was announced, in a backhanded way, by Secretary of State Dean Acheson during a press conference last week. He had just rebuked Egypt's Prime Minister for kicking up the dust over the presence of British troops along the Suez Canal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Acheson added that "new proposals" had already been prepared and were being offered to the Egyptian Government. The new plan would, said he, "contribute to the defense of the free world in which the Middle East plays such an important role...
...admiringly watched and quickly followed in the Middle East. In Egypt, 75-year-old Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha, who like Mossadeq has spent most of his life baiting the British, seized the chance of a lifetime, jumped on the British with rough demands that they vacate the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan...
...headquarters of the command in Egypt, for joint Suez Canal defense. Suggested initial donors of troops: Britain and Egypt...
Some of Leonardo's inventions were actually built and used. His canal locks are still in operation near Milan, and they work just like the locks of the Panama Canal. But Leonardo was often too far ahead of his contemporaries. His paddle-wheel boat, his cantilever swing bridge, his pumps and his air conditioner (both driven by water power) did not fit the crude technology of the 16th Century. Centuries had to pass before the slow-moving world caught up with Leonardo...
Four weeks ago they stopped trucks leaving West Berlin for Germany's West zone, demanded a toll of $75 a round trip to pay for "road upkeep." They had already cut off the Berlin-Mittelland barge canal for "repairs" and hampered railway parcel-post shipments on still another pretext. Meanwhile, Red negotiators sat down with West German officials to talk about a new trade agreement between East and West Germany...