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JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Feb. 7--Reports indicate that Israel is intensifying plans to hold on in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba despite a personal message from President Eisenhower...
Dulles told newsmen he had good grounds for hoping Israel would comply with the latest United Nations withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba as well as the Gaza Strip...
...Syrians said they would start the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s big pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port...
...General Assembly called on Israel to withdraw within five days behind the 1949 armistice line. Both Britain and the U.S. first worked to avoid an outright condemnation of Israel, and then supported the resolution. Though agreeing to withdraw, Israel attached conditions. It insisted that Egypt must never return to Gaza, which was in fact a part of the old Palestine mandate and had never been Egyptian soil since the days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm...
Outlook (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Chet Huntley with film and comment on current affairs. Subjects: George Kennan on disarmament; life in occupied Gaza...