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...remembered that our State Department today is faced with the task of trying to put out the fire started by the ineptitude of two previous Administrations. Since 1945, we and/or our friends and allies have been kicked out of China, Albania, Indo-China, North Korea, Tibet, Iraq, Hungary and Suez. Is Quemoy to be next on the list...
...years after that wild day when the Egyptians sank 40 ships to plug the Suez Canal, the world's No. 1 international waterway hummed last week with peaceful trade, and a golden flood of hard-currency tolls poured into President Nasser's United Arab Republic treasury...
...walls, and the scarred stump of the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, torn down by mobs celebrating the departure of the last Anglo-French invaders, still stands at the canal entrance. Vastly more in evidence, as Egyptians prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week with smooth efficiency. Good operation of the ditch is now taken for granted, even by those who predicted so darkly back in 1956 that the Egyptians would make a mess...
...free its oil from the entanglement of Arab politics and the dangers of a blockaded Suez Canal, Iran last week signed an agreement with its Baghdad Pact partner, Turkey, for a $500 million oil pipeline. Presumably, oil from the rich new northern field of Qum will be piped over the mountains to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Estimated savings in oil transport costs...
...judge from current plans, producers will be working the Oriental gimmick to death, bringing new East-of-Suez shows to town far into spring. "Damned if I can explain it," says Producer Irene Selznick, one of the few who has yet to find a place in the new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. "But it's good for international relations." Says Agent Rivers: "Sometimes it's all the great unwashed. This season it's Orientals. When this phase is over I'll be left on my tail...