Widening Suez Canal
(Rec. 11 p.m.) CAIRO, Mar. 23. A “Nasser Plan” to widen the Suez Canal to allow the transit of super tankers has already started with more than 2000 men working at three points, according to reports reaching Cairo. .This is the first indication that work has begun in the absence of any official announcement. Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler, the United Nations expert. who completed canal clearance operations last year, is at present having talks with the Egyptian Canal Authority on the question of* a loan from the International Bank for the canal’s further development.
Russian Antarctic Trek.—Fourteen Soviet scientists, equipped with Penguin all-purpose snow vehicles, have left the Russian main Antarctic base at Mirny on a trek to the Pionerskaya Station. 233 miles inland, according to the Soviet news agency, Tass. —Moscow, March 23.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 11
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