Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...
...Knesset, unruffled by boos and yells of "Resign!", Ben-Gurion was as frank as his opponents to acknowledge that he had won no ironclad guarantees: "I must state that there is no certainty and there is no clear and authoritative undertaking that Egyptians will not return or be restored to the Gaza Strip . . . As for the straits [of Tiran] there is no express U.N. decision that the U.N. force must remain until a peace settlement and safeguard freepassage." Nonetheless Ben-Gurion was ready to settle: "The problem of Israel's security has become a question of conscience for very...
...Jerusalem, President David Ben-Gurion interrupted a Cabinet session to confer with U.S. Ambassador Edward B. Lawson on the Gaza crisis...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem today his country "reserves freedom of action in case Egyptians return to the Strip...
...seeded Ben Heckscher won his second consecutive Intercollegiate Squash Championship yesterday to climax one of the finest squash careers ever turned in by a Harvard player. He defeated Navy's John Griffiths, seeded fourth, 12-15, 15-7, 15-10, 15-7, in the finals...