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...26th General Assembly of the United Nations opened last week in an atmosphere of urgency rarely shown by that body in the past. In its first formal order of business, the Assembly elected Foreign Minister Adam Malik of Indonesia its President, and admitted three ministates, Qatar, Bahrain and Bhutan,* raising the number of member nations to 130. Then the delegates got down to business: a procedural test of strength over two U.S. resolutions to admit China to both the Assembly and the Security Council but retain a seat in the General Assembly for the Nationalist regime on Taiwan...
...lower on the horizon. Apart from Hong Kong, which remains a Gurkha-garrisoned crown colony, Britain is rapidly withdrawing its historic military presence from the Far East. The huge naval yard and three airbases in Singapore are being turned over to the local government; the Persian Gulf bases of Bahrain and Sharjah will be closed down well before the end of next year; and Aden has become a port of call for the Russian navy and a barracks for wayward Arab guerrillas...
...Republicans. Last February, however, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the 49-year-old Shah of Iran, abruptly canceled a state visit to Saudi Arabia, even though the capital city of Riyadh was already bedecked with welcoming banners. The Shah was irate because King Feisal was playing host to the Sheik of Bahrain Island, the British dependency just off the coast of Saudi Arabia that has long been claimed by Iran. Even worse, Feisal was said to have promised to build a twelve-mile bridge to Bahrain and vowed to defend the is land "under any circumstances...
...Rostow to Teheran in an unpublicized attempt to cool the angry Shah. Later, King Hassan of Morocco, on visits to Teheran and Riyadh, acted as a conciliator. Reassured about each other's intentions, the Shah and King Feisal began to exchange delegations. Feisal disclaimed any bridge building to Bahrain, and the Shah glossed over the fracas...
More significantly, the two monarchs tacitly agreed to put aside the Bahrain dispute, for the time being at least, and moved on to the more urgent problem of how to defend the Persian Gulf...