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Share the honor between Dag Hammarskjold and Nasser. For the Tyrants of the Year, how about Eden and Mollet for a start...
...overhead and ten destroyers guarding their flanks, they sailed slowly north out of the wreck-cluttered harbor and faded into the wintry Mediterranean dusk. The troops themselves were glad to go: it had not been pleasant duty on their sector, crowded in by Egyptians stirred by inflammatory propaganda in Nasser's newspapers...
...British wanted the U.N. to use the British 20-ship salvage fleet to clear the remaining 13 wrecks in Port Said harbor, and to help remove wrecks lodged farther south in the canal. The U.N. wanted these ships, especially six lifting craft, but the sticking point was their crews. Nasser refused to contemplate British and French sailors' sailing up and down the canal...
...help Austria meet the burdens imposed on it by the influx of some 130,000 Hungarian refugees. -j[¶ Prodded the Cairo government to show good faith by acting to restore Middle East stability. In conversation with Egyptian Foreign Minister Fawzi in Washington and President Nasser in Cairo, U.S. officials urged prompt resumption of talks aimed at clearing the Suez, settling its international status with Britain and France, and resolving the long-standing Arab-Israeli dispute...
...with the U.S. applying pressure for action, Nasser might well accept a compromise under which British salvage ships and their crews would serve in General Wheeler's forces. After all, Nasser, rather than having "gained strength" from the past month's events, has had a sizable part of his army and air force chewed up. The closing of the canal, and the consequent loss of revenue, hurts his badly strained economy...