The densetimberwasshipped around the world and usedforsuchempire-buildingprojects as lining the SuezCanaland, afterworld War II, for rebuildingLondon's Tilbury Docks.
In nineteen fifty-six, he traveled to the Middle East to cover the war over the Suez Canal.
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When Nasser closed the Straits in 1967, President Johnson decided, in light of the heavy U.S. commitment in Vietnam, that the United States could not fulfill its 1957 assurances which had been made to induce Israel to withdraw from the Sinai after the Suezwar.
During the Suez Canal crisis, the Vietnam War and again during the 1970s oil embargo, courts held that commodities brokers could not bail out of futures contracts.
These have included one about Saladin, the (Kurdish) warrior who drove the crusaders out of Jerusalem, a film about the Iran-Iraq war and one about the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973.