Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boos and yells of "Resign!", Ben-Gurion was as frank as his opponents to acknowledge that he had won no ironclad guarantees: "I must state that there is no certainty and there is no clear and authoritative undertaking that Egyptians will not return or be restored to the Gaza Strip . . . As for the straits [of Tiran] there is no express U.N. decision that the U.N. force must remain until a peace settlement and safeguard freepassage." Nonetheless Ben-Gurion was ready to settle: "The problem of Israel's security has become a question of conscience for very many states...
...same day, Israeli tanks started rumbling north out of Gaza, while the first convoy of a 2,600-man, six-nation U.N. Emergency Force clattered in to take over the strip "for the purpose of maintaining quiet during and after" the Israeli 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...
...accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered his headquarters moved forward from Suez to Gaza and proclaimed: "Until further arrangements are made, the UNEF has assumed responsibility for civil affairs in the Gaza Strip...
...Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes in 1934, have mapped but have hardly tapped...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem today his country "reserves freedom of action in case Egyptians return to the Strip...