Word: aqaba
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...Israelis would retain use of a road through the Abu Rudeis to supply their troops stationed at Sharm el Sheikh, the strategic point controlling access to the Gulf of Aqaba. One Egyptian suggestion to avoid clashes between the forces had been to give the Israelis 24 hours' use of the road and the Egyptians the following 24 hours. The Israelis, however, want the Egyptians to build a new access road...
Oddly enough, a reopened canal may well have less effect on the transportation of oil, its old staple, than on other materials. Israel operates a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, and Egypt is about to build a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez, skimming off some of the Persian Gulf oil that used to be shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world...
...Sheikh, Gaza, the Palestinian question, the Golan Heights and, finally, Jerusalem. Egypt will not settle for less than the return of all its territories, but Sadat is willing to provide the kind of guarantees that Israel has long demanded. Free navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, a nonrevocable international force at Sharm el Sheikh and even Israeli purchase of Sinai oil-all are possible once Egyptian sovereignty over its Israeli-occupied territories is recognized...
...week began, Egyptian forces held firm in their positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, protected from Israeli planes by the umbrella of artillery and missiles. Occasionally they staged commando raids behind Israeli lines, including two on Sharm el Sheikh, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. By midweek the Egyptian buildup in the Sinai had reached more than 100,000 men and 1,000 tanks. They struck spasmodically at Israeli positions in an effort to ease the pressure on Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi forces on the battlefronts of the Golan Heights...
...Amman airport can take up to five hours-including a bus drive through the Jordan Valley, a stop at the border for passport and baggage check, and a second bus trip to Jerusalem. The airline offers each tour customer a free excursion flight to the seaside resort of Aqaba in Jordan to offset the inconvenience. Right now, Americans must first fly to Europe and take Alia from a major European city, but the Jordanian line will soon apply to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a weekly flight from New York's Kennedy Airport...