Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, March 18-President Nasser has pulled a diplomatic reverse play on the United States by letting Saudi Arabia carry the ball for the Arabs on the Aqaba Gulf issue...
Crown Prince Faisal, brother of King Saud, arrived today for talks with Nasser on action to keep the Israelis from using the Aqaba Gulf as a channel for high seas commerce. "We accept no bargaining on this point," he told newsmen. "We will fight every effort to decrease the Arabs' sovereignty over their territorial waters...
Dulles was quoted as saying there were no commitments beyond the expression of "hopes and expectations" that Israel's withdrawal of military forces from the Gaza Strip would lead to that county's having free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...withdrawal. At midnight Israel's one-eyed Army Chief Moshe Dayan met Lieut. Colonel Carl Engholm, UNEF commander in Gaza, in the town square. "Everything is going well," said Engholm. Less than 48 hours later, fast-moving General Dayan handed over the wrecked Egyptian gun positions overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba narrows, and Israel's army was gone from Egypt after a 126-day stay...
There were no inhabitants along the treeless gulf shore to cheer the Israeli pullout, but Gaza's 300,000 Arabs (220,000 of them Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief) more than made up for it. In Rafah crowds danced all day, shouting "Good Hammarskjold, good Abdel Nasser." After U.N.forces freed 120 political prisoners from Gaza's jail, thousands of Arabs paraded carrying such slogans as: "Welcome as guests but not rulers," and "We do not accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered...