Word: patrollers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammarskjold's recent negotiations with President Nasser have brought hope that Egypt will accept its obligation under the implied settlements which brought about the final Israeli troop withdrawals. The Egyptian government is now recommencing administration in the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations Emergency Force continues to patrol the border. Israeli ships have moved through the Aqaba Gulf and the Suez Canal soon may be reopened. Though peace-time operations seem about to be started the whole situation presents a complex of diplomatic problems whose particular solutions are interrelated and thus must be solved together...
Under Gaza's pale minarets and scraggly date palms, locally recruited Arab police and Israeli constables patrol in pairs, distinguishable from each other in their air-force-blue uniforms only because the Arab wears a beret, the Israeli a garrison cap. But while the persistent Israelis clean up the towns and modernize the farms, the inhabitants of much-conquered Gaza wait warily. Said one, when asked last week for his view of Gaza's future: "Tell me who is going to be our master, and I'll tell you what I think...
Bypassing Suez. The Israelis stood a chance to salvage one gain from their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape...
...also asked "serious consideration" for a U.N. force to patrol the borders between Israel and other Arab states as well...
...British withdrew behind barri cades to the piers where their transports lay waiting, units of the U.N. Emergency Force also came under fire for the first time. A jeepful of Norwegians and a Swedish patrol emerged unscathed from two street-corner ambushes. "Fire was re turned," said next day's U.N. communique. Making his rounds in a new blue, gold-tabbed uniform of his own design and a car bearing license UNEF-i, U.N. Emergency Force Commander E.L.M. Burns assured the Egyptians that he would pull his 1,600-man U.N. detachment out of Port Said as soon...