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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...
...Phoenix or anywhere else in the U.S., it was hard to detect much worry about falling last week. The week's two long-awaited banner-headline events, Israel's pullback from Gaza and Sharm el Sheikh, and congressional approval of the Eisenhower Doctrine, brought no deep, nationwide sighs of relief because few Americans ever really got tensed up much about either issue. The economy showed scattered patches of anemia-layoffs in the home-appliances industry in Ohio, four-day weeks in West Coast plywood mills-but even people in the patches seemed confident of its basic health...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 4--While Israeli students rioted in Jerusalem in protest, Israel today completed technical arrangement for the transfer of Sharm el Sheikh and the Gaza Strip to the U.N. Emergency Force...
Israel has refused to get out of the Gaza Strip and Sharm El Sheikh, which commands the mouth of the Gulf of Aquaba, without guarantees against Egyptian attack from these areas...
...fact a part of the old Palestine mandate and had never been Egyptian soil since the days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm el Sheikh and Tiran, the strongholds from which Nasser had blocked their access to the gulf and the port of Elath...