Word: gulf
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...Eban. Israel's prime demand, he said, is Arab acceptance of its right to exist. And Israel is pressing for direct peace talks with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the Arab nations whose armies it defeated. It also demands the right of passage through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba...
...Israel's best guarantee that its Arab neighbors would cease their "design at politicide-the murder of a state." Such a treaty, he insisted, would also bring enormous benefits to the whole troubled area. Israel, for example, would give Jordan-whose only present port is on the Gulf of Aqaba-an outlet to the Mediterranean. It would promote a joint program of economic and social advancement and a regional communications system that would permit rail and road traffic between Egypt and its Arab brothers from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon...
...German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they met in Bonn for more than six hours with student leaders, but the talk did not narrow the widening gulf between older Germans and the new activists...
...perennial Middle East threat to the peace re-emphasizes the need for a permanent solution to control of key international waterways. The Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba should be internationalized under irrevocable U.N. control. The world cannot permit Nasser to use those shipping lanes as instruments of national policy, to be turned on or off at will. Although Nasser wished to be the hero of a holy war of annihilation of Israel, the would-be tiger of the Nile has now earned the title of Papyrus Tiger...
...sympathy for Israel was strong.* Of 438 Congressmen who replied to an Associated Press poll, an overwhelming 364 urged that Israel be given assurances of national security and access to the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez Canal before withdrawing its troops from occupied Arab lands. The other 74 qualified their answers or refused to state a position, but not one urged Israel to withdraw without guarantees. U.S. officials-at least in private-also sympathize with Israel's demands for recognition by the Arab nations and a territorial realignment giving Israel defensible borders...