Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transistorized Bases. The purchase of Diego Garcia came after a two-year survey by an Anglo-American mission that has been combing the Indian Ocean for suitable communications, staging and refueling sites. Britain's biggest bases east of Suez are in jeopardy-Aden, with its 14,000 men, is expected to become unusable in two years due to Arab pressure; Singapore-Malaysia, with 51,000 men and the best strategic location in Southeast Asia, is likely to be evacuated by 1970 at the latest, depending partly on how great a threat Indonesia continues to pose in its confrontation with...
...pensions" and "meals-on-wheels" to the yawns of the audience. It was not until next day that the Conservatives were able to grab some headline space. Up stepped tough, mustachioed Enoch Powell, the shadow Defense Minister, with an astonishing plea for reduction of British military commitments east of Suez. Arguing that "a military presence has more than once proved an obstacle," Powell said that in the long run the quelling of Communist expansionism in Asia and Africa was not Britain's business. Besides, maintenance of military bases and forces from Aden to Hong Kong was too heavy...
...Indian Ocean would produce a considerable saving in Britain's annual $6 billion defense budget. The U.S. Navy is currently studying the possibility of erecting a joint base in the Seychelles Islands to that end. The Labor Party, still officially committed to maintaining British bases east of Suez, is also pondering the question while preparing a defense White Paper due next spring. With both parties agreed in principle on the need for some reworking of the "thin red line," the new thinking may well produce repercussions throughout the Commonwealth, Europe and the entire Atlantic community...
...miles of contested border, it was impossible to tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling-off period was likely to take just as long - or longer...
...first "honest, democracy-loving government in 5,000 years of Egyptian his tory." Nasser soon proved him wrong, but for years the personable, pro-Western Amin remained close to Egypt's strongman. He was sent to Beirut on a top-secret mission to seek an end to the Suez war, served as Nasser's adviser on a trip to the U.N. In 1962, long after all Cairo papers had been nationalized, Nasser signed a decree restoring him as publisher of his Al Akhbar (The News). Last week Amin, 51, was in prison, accused of spying...