Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 28--In a major break after weeks of negotiations, Israel informed the U.N. Assembly today it will make a statement tomorrow on its plan to withdraw from Egypt and the Gaza Strip...
...urged the Senate to strip from the Middle East resolution the authority for Eisenhower to spend up to 200 million dollars on military and economic aid for Middle Eastern nations...
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...
Hard set against this course were the old-line Stalinists headed by outgoing Party Chairman William Z. Foster, whom the dead dictator handpicked for his job in 1929. Rumbled old (75), ailing (heart disease) Chairman Foster, who had powerful Soviet and French Communist support: the Gates proposals would strip Marx-Leninism of its "international character," and reduce it to "innumerable national interpretations," an "impossible position for a Communist Party." Swinging wildly between the poles of "independence" and "solidarity" were the followers of Eugene Dennis, outgoing party secretary...
...Dulles made them what seemed a good offer. As soon as Israel pulled back its troops, he told Ambassador Abba Eban, the U.S. would 1) itself underwrite Israel's right to free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids on Israel...