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France is reliably reported to have promised to support Israeli demands for a settlement of the Suez crisis. They are: free navigation for Israeli ships on the Suez Canal and in the Gulf of Aqaba, internationalization of the Gaza strip, and demilitarization of the Sinai. peninsula The first United Nations soldiers to go into the Middle East were insured for $25,000 each against loss of life, limb or eye…. The 185 U.S. foreign aid experts withdrawn from the Middle East at the outbreak of hostilities will be back on the job in the next week or two.

U.S. support of the Nationalist China regime was further emphasized last week by the announcement that the Air Force would build a $25 million jet fighter and bomber base on Formosa. That will put our biggest bombers within 1,700 miles of Peiping…. NATO plans to build 25 advance airbases in West Germany, with Bonn paying two-thirds of. the total cost of $375 million…. In the first popularity poll of the new year—an election in West Germany—81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still led all his rivals by far, and placed well ahead of his own party.

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