The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1973 Page: 2 of 24
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as one dreamer of the time
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peace in this part of the
world."
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has never materialized. Suez
owners of one nationality or
another have used the water
for politics since its incep-
tion. Egypt has never al-
lowed Israeli ships to pass
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years, the canal, blocked by
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Egyptian victory."
Baloney, of course. There
haven’t been any stunning
victories on either side of the
Suez since it became the Mid-
dle East's front line after the
six days of combat in 1967.
Israeli combatants have
made some terrible strikes
this side of the water; Arab
propagandists have coun-
tered with blustery verbal of-
fenses But victories’ Says is perhaps the most agoniz-
one observer: “There have ing symbol of war existing in
been only losers in the ca- today's world.
nal's closing.” The water itself has re-
ft was Pharoah Sesostris mained.almost.precisely
who first tried to link the what twasiafter the Six Day
Mediterranean and the Red War. Fifteen.s hipsaincluding
Sea, 2,000 years before two American freighters,
Christ Numberless poten tilleidleat.jan chor, trapred
tates, using slave laborers, for 68 months. Two Swedish
carried on with the task to ships have been given up as
one degree of failure or an- insurance losses, but all the
other 5 boats are continually
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Then, in the middle of last who complain about the job
century, French diplomat —keep maintenance if not
Ferdinand de Lesseps won faith. "God," says one for-
an ultimate approval to con- mer crewman, "it’s boring as
struct 103 miles of man-made hell." The crews visit one an-
river. The work took 10 other set up trees on Christ-
years. Twenty-three thou- mas. "But mostly, by damn,
sand men a month were all you do is wait, just wait ”
used Seventy-five-million cu- so too does the land wait,
bic meters of earth were dug on this side anyway, virtual-
ly unchanged in a half dozen
years. Suez City, bombed to
rubble in 1968. is a ghost
town of windowless build-
ings, caved-in walls and
dead trees Once 250.000 peo-
ple lived here, thriving on
the canal trade. The city's
present governor, Badawil
Kholy. claims 500 of the resi-
dents were killed by Israeli
attacks and 4,000 more were
injured. As for the rest:
"They didn't want to go.
They wanted to stay and
fight. But we decided for
their own sake they must
move to safer areas "
In all, according to Egyp-
tian figures, nearly three-
quarters of a million people
were moved back from the
length of the Suez. Most of
them lost everything they
owned. Says one, living now
with relatives north of Cairo:
"I was a merchant in Suez
City. Now I have nothing.
What do I do? I ask for tips
from the tourists at the pyra-
mids How long will I do
this? Who cares? I am home-
less but no one cares Do you
hear anyone crying about the
Suez refugees’”
There is. to be sure, only
a minimum of world sobbing
over anything connected with
the Suez these days The poli-
tics of it all are lost to most,
and the canal itself, say
some, has forfeited its worth.
Many of the world’s sophis-
ticated ships — mammoth
tankers up to 250,000 tons—
have simply grown too big
for the Suez. In the last year
of its operation the canal
could accommodate ships up
to 70,000 tons Thus, says a
Beirut-based oil executive:
"It’s now cheaper to use the
old world shipping route—
around Africa's Cape of
Good Hope. Rather than send
four small ships through the
canal, we can send one giant
ship around the Cape It’s as
simple as that.”
Egypt, understandably,
disagrees with this analysis
Government spokesmen ex-
plain that Gamal Abdel Nas-
ser. before his death in 1970.
had begun plans for a canal
expansion Supposedly, en-
gineers are still ready with
blueprints for widening and
deepening Optimists say the
Suez could easily” be wid-
ened from 200 to 300 yards
and dredged another 20 feet.
Pessimists argue that the
plan is too expensive for
what it's worth, and advo-
cate building a whole new
waterway
But, for the moment, all of
this debate is fiddle-faddle.
Just to open the canal to its
previous operation would
take eight months minimum
and at least $100 million in
speculation. And not even
this can be done until Egyp-
tians and Israelis agree that
it should be done.
Small chance for that right
now Israel vows not to re-
treat "one foot” from the
Suez until binding peace
agreements are signed by
the antagonists Egypt, for
its part, is not interested in
opening the canal as a pre-
requisite for peace because,
as an official puts it: "If the
canal opens there will be no
more interest at all in the
Middle East situation Once
Europe can get to its oil
again, it will forget that Is-
rael still holds thousands of
square miles of Egyptian
territory."
So the stalemate continues
One Egyptian, recently re-
lieved from Suez duty, says
it for the khakied minor
functionaries: "The soldiers
shout back and forth across
the canal, for something to
do. But the Israelis are
sometimes unfair Some-
times they broadcast prop-
aganda using a sexy wom-
an's voice. That is bad for
us. I’ll tell you the way to
peace—let us send some
Egyptian women over to the
Israeli soldiers, and let them
send some women to us:
afterwards, we would never
fight again "
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1973, newspaper, April 18, 1973; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1866737/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.