Word: mideast
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...ready to move into the Red Sea from Aden. The U.S. carrier Intrepid, ostensibly bound for Viet Nam, transited the Suez Canal as anti-American demonstrators waved their shoes at the ship in the Egyptian equivalent of a Bronx cheer. An eleven-unit U.S. antisubmarine group headed toward the Mideast; the British commando carrier Albion broke off maneuvers in the North Sea and made for an undisclosed destination...
...inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset. "There is no going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
...oddities of the situation, however, is that many of those who are attacking Johnson for not having resorted to force at once in the Mideast are those who also attack him most bitterly for having used force at all in Viet Nam. Jean-Paul Sartre, fresh from the Swedish kangaroo court 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...
...Building Bellicosity. Should a real crunch develop in the Mideast, would the U.S.-in the absence of U.N. action-intervene? In a speech at Newport News, Va., the President dropped an oblique hint that it would feel strongly compelled to do so. The occasion was the launching of the 61,450-ton attack carrier John F. Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that she might...
...crossing the Alps is no longer an economic obstacle. Though T.A.L. cost its owners, a consortium of 13 oil companies led by Esso and Shell, an average $500,000 a mile, its Trieste terminal, where the first tanker put in from Kuwait last week, is advantageously close to Mideast and North African oil sources...