Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable power-positioning that followed Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and from Sharm el Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt's Dictator Nasser last week moved fast to send in one of his generals to administer Gaza's civil affairs. United Nations Representative Ralph Bunche infuriated Israel by announcing, after a 90-minute conference with President Nasser, that the U.N. would "cooperate" with the Egyptian administration...
Nasser also hurried reconnaissance troops to a base just 40 miles southwest of the Gaza Strip while the Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...
...nights and a day, the 17,000-ton missile cruiser Canberra cut through an uneasy sea in rain and fog that blotted out the destroyers Barton and Wood port and starboard. Finally, on the second day, after knifing through the Gulf Stream, Canberra moved into the Bahama Islands' 100-mile-long Exuma Sound to be welcomed by warm sun and blue sky. Behind, through the veil of rain, lay the ship's Norfolk pier and beyond that Ike's own pier, the White House. On the horizon: the ragged smudge of Cat Island. To the northeast...
...waiting until the U.N. had given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights in such "absolute Arab territory...
...Secretray-General should impress upon Nasser that once this objection has been removed Egypt has little choice under international law but to declare non-belligerency and permit free passage in Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. If the United States speaks out strongly on this point instead of equivocating with its usual pious phrases, Egypt will probably concede. For when Egypt has these securities, she will have no legal basis for interfering with Israeli shipping. But so long as Israel insists on occupying El Auja, Nasser will have some justification for keeping Israeli ships out of the canal...