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Busy Fighters. There was no telling how long it would be before the wind blew in a new regime. British High Commissioner Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, after a quick trip to London for consultations, announced over Aden radio: "It is urgently necessary that a new government should take over. I recognize the nationalist forces as representatives of the people and am ready to enter into discussions immediately with them." The nationalist forces were too busy fighting each other to stop to talk to Sir Humphrey...
...progress between the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) for control of two of the federation's 17 states. The N.L.F. already holds twelve, FLOSY two. Only the emirate of Beihan is still unbothered by the rebels. In Aden, the federation's dominant state, not even the presence of 10,000 British troops could prevent street fighting between the two groups...
...federation's tiny sultanates, and his hard-eyed young nephew, Feisal. What outside support they have, if any, remains their secret. FLOSY, on the other hand, boasts a stable of well-known politicians and administrators, led by Abdul Qawee Mackawee, 48, onetime Chief Minister of Aden, and Abdullah Asnag, 32, former boss of Aden's powerful trades unions. For the past five months, FLOSY has operated a government in exile, complete with a full shadow Cabinet, a capital in the Yemeni city of Taiz, and operating headquarters in Cairo...
...sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates that are joined with Aden in the Federation of South Arabia add up to an area of shifting sands, tribal fiefs, and steadily building trouble. A pair of powerful leftist terrorist organizations - the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.O.S.Y.), which is backed by Nasser, and the home grown rebels of the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) - have been jockeying for positions of power ever since Britain promised to give the federation its independence in January. With four months to go, the terrorists are operating with increasing urgency...
...Lower Yafa. By week's end, the National Liberation Front-at present the stronger of the rebel groups-claimed it had gained control of ten states and would soon "overthrow the rest of the reactionary feudalists." An eleventh state had fallen to F.L.O.S.Y., and only five-plus Aden itself-remained under any form of federation control...