Word: imam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imam of Yemen is a scraggly-bearded old man with a taste for women, at least five known diseases including syphilis, and an incredible durability. At 70, he has survived innumerable attempts on his life by his Yemeni tribal enemies, makes it a rule to behead any would-be assassin he can catch. When his own brother tried to overthrow him in 1955, the Imam did not let family feelings interfere with justice, ordered his execution...
Internationally, the Imam has proved nearly as dexterous, proclaiming a "great balance" program of "grateful acceptance of aid without strings from both East and West." He has watched delightedly while Russia, Red China and the U.S. fought to be the first to lead Yemen out of the Arabian night. Last week Russia's Merchant Marine Minister Viktor Bakaev ar rived in Yemen to put Moscow temporarily in the lead. His task: to hand over a $15 million Red Sea port built by Russia...
Sana. And the Americans-like the Chinese and the Russians-are itching to do more. A squad of U.S. Army and Air Force dentists has been keeping watch over the Imam's dental plates (which are held in place by U.S.-made magnets), and a U.S. aid mission, unable to interest the Imam in a proposed $5,000,000 overall development program, is now offering to build a water supply system for Taiz...
...tiny Yemen, the Imam personally censors all outgoing cable copy...
...country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen of Imam Othman dan Fodio overwhelmed the original Hausa inhabitants. Though it is still an essentially feudal society in which Hausa-speaking masses are ruled by stern Fulani emirs, the North today, by sheer weight of numbers, controls Nigeria's federal House of Representatives and, in the person of Sir Abubakar, lords...