Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality about the Arab-Israeli crisis in the Middle East last week-as if none of the parties quite knew how or why it had got just where it was. Yet the threat to world peace was real enough. Egypt, having already moved some 80,000 troops into the Gaza Strip and all along its 117-mile border with Israel, announced that it would not permit Israeli ships or vessels bearing strategic materials to Israel to enter the Gulf of Aqaba, at the head of which sits the important Israeli port of Elath...
...chance by telegraphing its punch. Both sides, in fact, were making it plain that they would move only if the enemy moved first. It was nevertheless a dangerous situation. All along the Israeli frontier, any trigger-happy soldier on either side could start a major conflagration. In the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Shukairy, the fire-eating boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization-which has nothing to lose and everything to gain from a war with Israel-announced that commando raids on Israel would continue unabated. In the air, with the fighter pilots of Israel, Egypt and Syria on constant patrol...
...Reward for Services. The mind and the method functioned faultlessly in Palestine. Meinertzhagen cunningly contrived a leak of false information that led the Turks to shift troops from Beersheba for the defense of Gaza. Where upon Allenby easily captured Beersheba, and with it a vast system of wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore...
...issue was Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which provides that members failing to pay their dues lose their vote in the General Assembly. The U.S. had argued that special assessments to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Middle East's Gaza Strip and the Congo were regular dues. Not so, said Russia and twelve other members, including France, South Africa and Belgium. Adamant, the U.S. let it be known as last year's General Assembly got under way that she would challenge Russia's right to vote. Result: to stave off a showdown...
...ultimately conceivable, as Robert Kennedy speculated in a recent speech, that "nuclear weapons might be used between Greeks and Turks over Cyprus, between Arabs and Israelis over the Gaza Strip, between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch." Defense experts such as Alastair Buchan, director of Britain's respected Institute of Strategic Studies, take a more sober view of the possibilities of proliferation but foresee, nonetheless, that the number of nuclear powers may well grow from five to 15 in the next 20 years...