Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson, in his statement issued Nov. 26, restricted Army aviation to an "imaginary" combat zone, 100 miles in front of and 100 miles behind the line of contact. The new policy would allow the Army to use missiles within this area, but would prevent Army planes from conducting close combat air support. The Air Force, according to Wilson, is now responsible for the major part of war transport operations...
...Middle East was to restore the situation that existed before the fighting started in Egypt. Reporting to the U.N. Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French withdrawal...
...like a victor. "Today." bragged Cairo's government-backed Al Gumhuria, "it is Egypt that will dictate terms." The Anglo-French forces, insisted the Egyptian dictator, must leave Egypt immediately-and as soon as they had gone, the U.N. police force must also get out of the Canal Zone and confine itself to patrolling the old 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice line. As for the Suez question, said Nasser, not until British and French forces left Egypt could the Egyptian government even agree to permit any steps toward reopening of the canal to navigation. Hammarskjold was prepared to treat Nasser...
...foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...present "precarious alliance" of the free world together with "the deepest understanding and sympathy . . . We believe that unilateral action is dangerous and to be avoided, but let us face honestly, for example, what the United States would be tempted to do if our interest in the Panama Canal Zone were threatened." Christians must pray "for the men who have the decisions to make, for the people who will pay for these decisions with their lives . . . Pray regularly; pray with all your heart...