Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic ties with the U.S., Britain and West Germany for allegedly supporting Israel during the war, 2) organize a total trade boycott of the three countries, and 3) continue their current oil embargo. Egypt, Iraq and Republican Yemen were in general support. On the right, oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya-joined by Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco-insisted on maintaining all ties with the West and scrapping the oil embargo, which was costing each of them $500,000 a day in lost revenues. "It is time for the Arabs to stop blaming the United States for their failures...
...ready to end its five-year war in Yemen, where 20,000 Egyptian troops are propping up a wobbly republican regime against 10,000 Saudi-supported tribesmen who want to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad proposed that Egypt and Saudi Arabia revive their Jeddah Agreement of 1965, which calls for formation of a caretaker government, a phased withdrawal of Egyptian forces, and a plebiscite among Yemeni tribesmen to pick a permanent form of government...
About 100 mercenaries are now training royalist guerrillas in the hills of Yemen, and a squad of ex-R.A.F. pilots known as "the Dangerous Dozen" fly jet fighters for Saudi Arabia. In the Nigerian civil war, a mercenary of uncertain nationality named Johnny ("Kamikaze") Brown pilots the battered B-26 bomber owned by the rebel regime of Biafra...
Fringe Benefits. All meres are well paid. Pilots in Saudi Arabia command as much as $2,800 a month, and meres in Yemen, many of them radio and demolition technicians, earn more than $1,000 a month. In the Congo, where the hazards are greater and more than 100 mercenaries have been killed in three years, the pay is less. It averages $800 a month-with bonuses for perilous assignments. But there are also fringe benefits that come from plundering captured properties...
Defense Minister Denis Healey envisions an eventual cut of one-fourth of Britain's 417,360-man military force, including the already announced withdrawal next year from the troubled colony of Aden in South Arabia. The most dramatic aspect of the pullback will be the dismantling of Britain's mammoth naval base at Singapore, whose strategic location near the Malacca Strait has long enabled Britain to police Far Eastern sea-lanes. (Singapore has neither the ships nor the money to use the base itself, and made it clear that the U.S. Navy would not be welcome.) Britain still...