Word: aqaba
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...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
...still remains the question of Israel's right of access to the Suez Canal. Nasser, in a chat to visiting U.S. editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo...
...broadcast to the nation in February, Ike said: "We should not assume that, if Israel withdraws, Egypt will prevent Israeli shipping from using the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. If, unhappily, Egypt does hereafter violate the armistice agreement or other international obligations, then this should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations...
Faintly visible in last week's developments was a possible acquiescence without agreement based on the referral of both Suez and Aqaba to the World Court. While judgment is being sought, the situation will be shaped to the local preponderance of strength: in Suez, where Egypt has the means and authority to make it stick, Israeli shipping will be barred pending the decision; in Aqaba, Israel is determined and the U.S. is committed to send through ships unless and until the World Court rules otherwise...
Even this makeshift modus operandi had to be found between the lines. In public, Nasser insisted to a group of visiting U.S. editors that both the Suez and Aqaba waterways are in Egyptian territory. The U.S., he said, "is aiming to starve us out, while the Soviet Union is aiming to help us'' with shipments of wheat. "We like to be friendly to the U.S.," but "we will not surrender to American pressure...