Tuesday, June 19, 2007

TIMELINE - 19 JUNE 1967

19 JUNE 1967

US President Lyndon Johnson declared: "If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations".

[From http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/index.htm]

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