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...knowing (nor had Congress) because of the unknowing demeanor of the U.S.'s defense budgeteers. "While the President was concentrating on the Suez business, shoring up the world alliance and all that," said another spokesman in the know, "we plumb forgot about our own bureaucrats." And when military officers around the Pentagon said, calmly last week that they could "live with" the new budget, nobody knew whether they were being frank or just polite...
...Imam. Some of the headlines made it appear that the British were once again shooting up primitive desert tribesmen, defending a despotic ruler and creating a "second Suez." But in fact this was a case when the British were going to the help of a Sultan who, in the London Economist's words, "is not contending against an electorate of the future-a nationalist movement of young and educated men-but against a reactionary rival." The British showed their might almost hesitantly. They acted in Oman, fearing that if they did not, their position would be weakened along...
...sizzling streets of Cairo and Alexandria were charged with happiness and excitement as 23 million Egyptians took a long holiday last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Nasser's revolution, the first anniversary of the seizure of the Suez Canal. On a hundred triumphal arches banners proclaimed: "Egypt, Tomb of Aggressors." "Nasser, Hero of Peace." From radios and loudspeakers all over the great (pop. 2,100,506) city of Cairo, the Big Brotherly voice of Nasser could be heard everywhere...
...first time, he spelled out details of how Egypt hoped to build the Aswan High Dam on a do-it-yourself basis, e.g., drawing on Suez Canal revenues (which gave him foreign exchange he did not have before) for the $172 million needed before 1962 for the project's scaled-down first phase...
...ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship and held...