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...Disraeli believe in open diplomacy. His backstairs dealings aroused as much opposition. Just as Nixon caused an uproar by selling wheat too cheaply to the Russians, so did Disraeli upset sensibilities by negotiating a loan at 13% from the Rothschilds to buy a major interest for Britain in the Suez Canal. Doubtful though some of his means were, Disraeli achieved his goals. By promoting a general European settlement, he helped maintain the Victorian peace, which was to last longer than any period of peace Europe had known since the early days of the Roman Empire...
...slip some rare criticism of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Egyptian army had not been properly trained under Nasser to fight an offensive war, Sadat declared-and it had also become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...
...country ample security. The southern Sinai would in effect be turned into an Israeli military bastion; the strategic military installations built there since 1967 would be left intact. From their southern stronghold, the Israelis could maintain a defensive radar watch over the area returned to the Egyptians, including the Suez Canal. The Israelis would also be left in full control of the Sinai...
...Israelis see it, their proposal offers the Egyptians several concrete concessions. It would allow the Suez Canal to be reopened and leave the Egyptians free to develop the northern shore of the Sinai as far as Rafah, a region the Israelis have been eying for new resort communities. The exact eastern border would be subject to negotiation. As one Israeli Cabinet minister put it: "They have something solid here with which to convince both their people and the rest of the Arab world that they have done an honorable deal...
...Olympic Games. U.S. participation in the 1936 Berlin Games was in doubt for months as many Americans urged a boycott to protest the anti-Semitism of the Nazi hosts. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon withdrew from the Melbourne Games because of the British-French occupation of Suez; that same year Spain and Holland refused to compete because of Russia's invasion of Hungary. Threatened withdrawal by Black African nations from the 1968 Mexico City Games resulted in the exclusion of black athletes from racist South Africa...