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...unilateral declaration deposited with the United Nations Security Council. But in laying out the terms, Nasser made important concessions by pledging himself to: ¶ "Respect the terms and spirit" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention, which provided that the canal "shall always be free and open ... to every vessel of commerce or of war, 'without distinction of flag" (although-as the convention specified ambiguously-Egypt can take any measures necessary for her own defense). ¶ Refer differences of interpretation between Egypt and signers of the Constantinople Convention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. ¶ Submit complaints about...
...cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack by a boom of logs that surrounded the vessel...
...Mosquito" (a small blood-vessel clamp...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always a challenge to the ardent collector. He plans to hang some of the newly acquired paintings in the Manhattan penthouse, others in the Paris house...