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...Police controls, strident propaganda and a rash of rumors-of plots, arrests, command quarrels-betrayed the spreading uncertainty in Cairo. But all of Nasser's overpowering propaganda could not camouflage some of the facts: the Israelis were still occupying part of Sinai and all of Gaza, and refusing to pull out of their positions at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba until the Egyptians guaranteed them free access to the Red Sea. The new U.S. Middle East policy, with its implied threat to isolate Nasser if he refuses to play the game with the Western side...
...Malik said in Paris that Nasser insists "that no Suez settlement is possible as long as Israel does not withdraw its troops behind the 1949 armistice lines." Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser told...
...successful beginning of the canal clearance also put new pressure on Nasser, who had counted on the blocked canal as Egypt's best lever for getting the world to pry Israel out of Sinai and Gaza. The Israelis, who have so far given up barely half of Sinai, are demanding U.N. guarantees that Egypt will neither reoccupy Gaza nor obstruct passage for Israeli ships through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...Arab-Israeli relations, he argued that the problem "at the moment is essentially psychological," and that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...
...night of Oct. 29, when Israel attacked Egypt, the Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians...