Word: canales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to Hare's pleas for recognition of the right of a user-nation organization to consult and cooperate in the canal's operation, Nasser conceded only that the Canal Authority would "welcome and encourage cooperation"-with "representatives of shipping and trade"-meaning companies, not nations...
That evening, as Jackson cleared the northern end of the canal and sailed into the Mediterranean, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi released a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, declaring: "The government of Egypt are pleased to announce that the Suez Canal is now open for normal traffic." Accompanying the letter was a "declaration" of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's charter for the operation of the canal. The declaration, wrote Fawzi, "constitutes an international instrument," and he asked Hammarskjold to register it as such...
...point Nasser was adamant: the canal would be run exclusively by Nasser's Suez Canal authority, with no advice from anyone. But after weeks of talk in Cairo between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company...
Fort San Lorenzo, a ruined Spanish post high above the Canal Zone's Caribbean coast, was bright with brass one morning last week. To the strains of music from a military band some 500 senior officers from the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries munched doughnuts and sipped coffee, admired each other's uniforms (578 generals' and admirals' stars, in all), and kept a weather eye out to sea. Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their...
...training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid in the event of real aggression anywhere in the hemisphere. Mindful of this role, the U.S. extended full military honors to the visitors, and Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew down to play host...