Word: straits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patriotism by roller-skating 4,000 miles eastward from Victoria to Newfound land. Teams of Canadians dressed in the garb of the early fur traders are paddling from Alberta to Expo in a 3,300-mile canoe race. Later this month, 200 Canadians will race across the Georgia Strait near Vancouver in seagoing bathtubs fitted with outboard motors...
...supported the Israeli cause, although he shrewdly avoided crowing over the Soviet-Arab defeat. Specifically, he put the American imprimatur on Israel's premises for peace: Arab recognition of Israeli statehood, an end to the state of belligerence that has existed since 1948, free use of Suez and the Strait of Tiran, direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Yet he also skirted the role of Israeli advocate. "Certainly," he said, "[Israeli] troops must be withdrawn...
Such solidarity is not surprising in a nation long inured to the threat of extinction. It also reflects an impatience to get on with the job of peacemaking. Premier Eshkol visited the Sharm el Sheikh garrison, reminded its men that there, on the Strait of Tiran, Nasser's blockade began the trouble. And there he announced that he was ready to talk peace with any Arab leader who would listen. "I hope that my outstretched hand will not be spurned by those who have the power to accept it," he said. Then he vowed that if rebuffed, "Israel...
...where he helped indict the U.S. for "war crimes" in Viet Nam, demanded a blockade-busting effort to aid Israel-and promptly had his books banned throughout the Arab world as a result. A covey of Democratic doves in the Senate called for swift action to reopen the Tiran Strait...
...their own way to remote kibbutzim (collective farms) to replace teachers called to arms. In Jerusalem, two wealthy merchant brothers responded to the emergency by paying up five years of back taxes. In Tel Aviv, an army officer and his wife named their newborn son Tiran after the disputed Strait at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, now under Egyptian blockade...