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...with 150 other Western journalists, all itching to get a look at the frontier. "You can climb into an ancient, wheezing taxi and make it known by various gestures that you want to go 'to the front,' " reports Rademaekers. "Off you go in the general direction of Suez in a billowing cloud of dust, accompanied for three hours by the weakening wail of the horn. In the end, you are usually delivered to a police station, where you are politely offered coffee and firmly told to go back to Cairo. In many ways, it is similar...
...explore the possibility of initiating a new U.N. peace-keeping action, the President flew to Canada where, after a desultory tour of Expo 67, he spent two hours with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1957 for his post-Suez efforts to restore order to the Middle East. Johnson also conferred in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The President kept Eban cooling his heels for a full day in punishment for the fact that the Israelis had imprudently announced his plan to meet Johnson before clearing it with the White House...
Nightly Diatribes. In the eleven years since the Suez crisis, the Arabs have increased the power of their armies mightily. Egypt alone has received $1 billion in military hardware-tanks, planes and rockets-from Russia, and both Moscow and Peking have helped arm the Syrians. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have been able to beg and buy their share of power from the West, and Iraq has been getting guns from both sides. Yet Israel has been keeping pace with the Arabs in expanding its armed might, still believes that its army of 300,000 regulars and reservists can stand...
...world's eyes centered on the Gulf of Aqaba, where the danger of an episode that could cause open warfare was greatest. Ever since Nasser closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping in 1956, the port of Elath has been Israel's main outlet for its growing export trade with Asia and East Africa. More important, it has become the port of entry for nearly 90% of the country's oil supplies. The Strait of Tiran, where coral reefs and the hulk of an ancient sunken ship make passage difficult under the best conditions, is easy...
...most ominous move of all came along the 117-mile Sinai desert frontier between Israel and Egypt. Ever since Suez, the frontier has been guarded by a 3,400-man United Nations peace-keeping force whose only assignment has been to keep the two hostile nations from each other's throats. Last week Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the U.N. troops to withdraw-"for their own protection"-not only from the border but from Egyptian soil entirely. Into their positions moved an Egyptian force estimated at 60,000 men, including one armored and four infantry divisions. It was the first...