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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Pullout | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Pullout | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Pullout | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Empire of Sand | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Crisis Possible in Mid-East As Egypt Plans Move into Gaza; Rebels Enter Batista's Residence | 3/14/1957 | See Source »

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