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...await transport. The remaining 10,000 are pulling out of their defensive posi tions in Yemen's bleak highlands, abandoning the Republican-held capital of San'a and the dusty town of Taiz. By the middle of November, according to Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram, even the Egyptian political advisers to Republican Strongman Abdul lah Sallal will be gone...
Hidden Pills. Dismissed from his post as vice president and commander of the armed forces in the wake of the war, Amer was arrested last month with 50 other officers on charges of plotting against Nasser. As Nasser's semiofficial mouthpiece Al Ahram rather fancifully reported it, Amer had planned to seize command of Egyptian troops on the Suez Canal, demand full reinstatement for himself and the 800 officers who were arrested or sacked as part of Nasser's postwar effort to find a scapegoat for his shattering defeat. If Nasser refused, the story went, Amer would march...
...petty intrigue, the intelligence network, like the army, has undergone a top-to-bottom purge since the war, which showed up its almost total ignorance of Israeli plans and strategy. Among the first to go was the service's powerful top man, Sala Nasr. Last week Al Ahram announced that Nasr, too, had been arrested in connection with the Amer plot. Since Nasr ran a tight one-man show, turning his agents into almost a private army, there is strong question in Cairo whether their loyalty will shift to Nasser or remain with their erstwhile leader...
Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram had some extraordinary news for its readers last week. "The battle is still going on," it proclaimed. "Victory is ours." In Damascus, yellow sandbags were piled high around government buildings to protect them from attack, and signs on many walls promised: WE SHALL DESTROY THE ENEMY. The Arabs clamored for a change in the name of the American University in both Beirut and Cairo to Palestine University, and Algeria compiled a list of "pro-Zionist" movie stars-including Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Harry Belafonte-and banned their films. On the banks...
Almost as if it believed its own words, Cairo's semiofficial newspaper, Al Ahram, continued to accuse the U.S. of sending its planes to fight for Israel. Now the paper even claimed that the U.S. "planned and led" the attack. "Let no one think we will talk peace with the aggressors," bristled a Cairo newspaper editor. "The war is not over. We are preparing for the second round, and this time we will call the shots." To make sure he would do the shot calling, Nasser sacked his Prime Minister, named himself to the job, organized...