Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last count there were exactly 27 whooping cranes left in the world: one at the San Antonio zoo, two at the New Orleans zoo and 24 at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on Texas' Gulf Coast. If the cranes would just stay at safe, secluded Aransas, they might increase-though not very fast, since whooping crane couples go steady for a few years before mating. But every April the flock flies off to breeding grounds near Canada's Great Slave Lake-all except one loner that, for reasons that baffle ornithologists (and possibly other whooping cranes), stayed...
...home. To read the excitable pronouncements in the kept Cairo press, Egypt is unyielding about everything: gives the U.S. and U.N. no credit for getting Israeli troops out of Egypt (something the Egyptians could not do for themselves), and renews its intransigent attitude about Israeli rights in Gaza, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Suez Canal. The optimistic drew comfort from the fact that Nasser himself had not yet said all these things, and might not be so unreasonable as his noisy propagandists...
Belligerent State. Egypt has not yet decided whether to allow Israeli ships to pass through the canal. In the past Egypt has barred Israeli ships from the canal-and from the Gulf of Aqaba-on grounds of Egypt's continued "state of belligerency" against Israel. Back in 1951 the U.N. Security Council ruled out this claim as incompatible with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice...
Nasser last week promised a group of student visitors from Gaza "to win back all Palestine." Diplomats in Cairo believe that Nasser may accept indefinite stationing of U.N. Emergency Force troops to keep peace along the border, but will insist on control over Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. Last week John Foster Dulles made plain that the U.S. will not be disposed to release the $50 million in blocked Egyptian funds so long as Nasser shows himself intractable...
There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...