Word: badr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reign of Terror. Sallal has become a desperate man. Neither Nasser's troops nor his own ragged army has been able to break the stalemate in the country's five-year-old civil war; Royalist tribesmen of the Imam Badr still hold half of Yemen, and are in a good position to contest Sallal's army for control of the rest. In his own camp, moreover, Sallal embarked on a reign of terror in which thousands of his for mer supporters have been jailed and dozens more executed. He has become so widely despised that not even...
Hope for Yemen. One mildly hopeful note came when Egypt announced that it was 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...
Nowhere is this rivalry more sharply drawn than in the arid sands and craggy cliffs of Yemen. There, in four years of sporadic skirmishing, the 50,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Nasser have been fought to a standstiil by tribesmen loyal to the ousted Imam Badr, who holds the hills and sustains his ragged army with supplies and arms from Feisal. Of late, however, Nasser has had less trouble fending off Feisal's royalist friends than in keeping in line the ragtag republican regime he sponsors in Yemen's capital...
...Yemen was entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen...
...conference to end the bloody (100,000 battle deaths) fighting between insurgent Republicans and Royalist mountain tribesmen was actually convened by the principal backers of the two factions. The Republicans are supported by 70,000 Egyptian troops; the Royalist forces of deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis...