Word: straits
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...been taken by the Arabs in 1949 "as the result of military aggression and occupation." Nor will the Golan Heights overlooking Upper Galilee be returned to Syria, whose guns had threatened "havoc and destruction for our villages in the valley." To ensure passage of Israeli shipping through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Ca al, Israel also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned into a huge demilitarized zone partly policed by Israeli troops. The city of Jerusalem would remain Israeli at all costs, he said...
Tigar has a good deal of help, chiefly from the women. Like many of Shaw's women, the two female cabinet members--Amy Sue Allen and Phyllis Ward--are clearer thinkers than the men. Miss Allen, as the strait-laced Lysistrata, and Miss Ward, the giggly Amanda, are both very good. And Norma Levin, as Magnus' grand mistress Orinthia, plays her scene with Tigar magnificently...
Among long-distance saltwater swallowers, the treacherous 22-mile strait from the Farallon Islands to the California mainland near San Francisco has a reputation roughly like Mount Everest...
Ongania's outrage was no surprise. During his 14 months in the Casa Rosada, the mustachioed strongman has all but declared sex illegal in his already strait-laced country. His regime has put Argentina's few tame girly magazines out of business, ordered nightclubs to keep their lights bright at all times and outlawed kissing in public parks. It has banned such widely acclaimed films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television...
...military force, including the already announced withdrawal next year from the troubled colony of Aden in South Arabia. The most dramatic aspect of the pullback will be the dismantling of Britain's mammoth naval base at Singapore, whose strategic location near the Malacca Strait has long enabled Britain to police Far Eastern sea-lanes. (Singapore has neither the ships nor the money to use the base itself, and made it clear that the U.S. Navy would not be welcome.) Britain still plans to keep a 9,000-man garrison in beleaguered Hong Kong...