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...normal state of affairs. But as tensions mounted and public concern increased in the U.S., the Administration acknowledged that an edgy situation had indeed been transformed into a potentially explosive one. When Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he was sealing off the Gulf of Aqaba against all Israeli vessels and other ships that might be carrying "strategic" cargo to the Israeli port of Elath (see THE WORLD), Washington acted firmly. In so doing, the U.S. exerted a sobering effect on the excitable antagonists, and may well have helped nudge them back from the brink...
...President canceled minor appointments, put the White House Situation Room on special alert, and went before television cameras with a som ber, seven-minute statement. "The purported closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping has brought a new and grave dimension to the crisis," said Johnson. "The U.S. considers the gulf to be an international waterway and feels that a blockade of Israeli shipping is illegal and potentially disastrous...
...promotions have created new spots to attract worldweary travelers. Jordan, the only Arab nation without oil, intends to wipe out its annual $40 million budget deficit with tourists. The government has allotted $21 million for new hotels, is advertising both its camel races and a new seaside resort at Aqaba...
First clues came when he led an expedition into the Wadi el 'Araba, the great desert depression that leads south from the Dead Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba. It is a fearful place, whipped by sandstorms and almost waterless, but the foothills to the east are crowned by fortresses, many of them, to judge by their pottery, dating from the time of King Solomon (961 to 922 B.C.). Glueck wondered why Solomon, so renowned for wisdom, valued this barren waste so highly. Then the Bedouins told him about a place called Khirbet Nahas -literally "copper ruin." The name...
...place was left: the Negev, the barren southern half of Israel, which juts like an isosceles triangle with its apex on the Gulf of Aqaba. In the Negev, Glueck saw a chance to use archaeology to influence the future of Israel by revealing the history of its distant past...