Word: imam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notices began appearing with tragic frequency -obituaries of young Egyptian officers killed in action. Where was the fighting? The papers did not say, but the bloody front was certainly in Yemen, where President Gamal Abdel Nasser had poured in some 12,000 troops to support the rebels who overthrew Imam Mohamed el Badr three months...
...expedition was costing Nasser heavily in money ($1,000,000 a day) as well as in blood. Only last month, Yemen's self-proclaimed President, Abdullah Sallal, the former commander of the palace guard who turned against the Imam, seemed to have the tiny feudal land firmly under control. Even when Saudi Arabia's Nasser-hating Crown Prince Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein rushed arms, advisers and money to the royalists, they seemed to have little effect...
With the mud and fog of Yemen's winter came a lull in the fighting between royalist guerrillas and the rebels who overthrew Imam Mohamed el Badr three months ago. But the danger remained that the distant little struggle could bring bloody conflict to other parts of the Middle East. In the hopes of isolating the feud, President Kennedy rushed off notes to Egypt's Nasser, Crown Prince Feisal of Saudi Arabia, Jordan's King Hussein and Rebel Leader Abdullah al Sallal, who now calls himself President of Yemen...
...Kennedy plan: Nasser's troops, which have been supporting the rebels, should withdraw from Yemen while Saudi Arabia and Jordan halt their aid to the Imam...
Wily Nasser agreed to pull out his soldiers-but only after Jordan and Saudi Arabia "stop all aggressive operations on the frontiers." Feisal and Hussein peremptorily rejected Kennedy's plan, since it would involve U.S. recognition of the "rebels." Though the Imam's ragtag army has been pushed from the cities and now occupies only a worthless fringe of eastern desert, Feisal and Hussein insist that, given a chance, the Imam will regain all of Yemen. For that reason, they argue that the U.S. should withhold recognition of President Sallal. But Washington is in a bind...