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...coast from Aden, Yemen had its own convulsion. The trouble began weeks ago, when one Colonel Abdullah Sallal, former commander of the port city of Hodeida and implicated in previous plots against the monarchy, launched a new conspiracy. It was aimed at the Imam, known as Ahmad the Devil, who had ruled despotically for 14 years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem...
Died. Annaser Ledin Allah Ahmad, 66th Imam of Yemen, 71, revered as "The Big Turban" among his 5,000,000 subjects in Islam's most feudal state, a cunning caliph who for 13 years managed to hang onto his throne, his air-conditioned Cadillacs, and his 40-woman harem by beheading his foes (among the victims: five of his brothers) and by firmly resisting all thoughts of leading Yemen out of the Arabian night; in his palace...
Pugnacious Poem. The tie with Yemen had been bizarre from the first. Nasser had hoped to reform the Stone Age kingdom and make it part of a Pan-Arab nation; Yemen's wily old Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing his country (where slavery, public flogging and eye-for-an-eye justice are still practiced). The Imam dodged all meetings with Nasser, barred the twelve-member U.A.R. committee from convening in Yemen, and tore up all of its recommendations for reform. He was unimpressed when, in his new drive...
...ditty fell into Nasser's hands and he exploded. Speaking at Port Said last week, Nasser lumped the Imam with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud as "reactionaries," and accused them of fostering conditions that are an affront to "the law of justice and the law of God." Said Nasser: "We shall have genuine class equality. Political freedom is nonsense without freedom from feudalism and capitalism ... If social justice is applied in Saudi Arabia, how can King Saud finance his harem and his slaves?" Stabbing the air with his fingers and pursing...
...Imam, who apparently has reservations about his son's admiration for Nas ser and two years ago tossed out the teachers and technicians Badr had imported from Egypt, last week called Hassan home from New York. Hassan has been given no job yet, but the ulema favor him over Badr. And on his way home Hassan spent four days in Saudi Arabia talking with King Saud, who is alarmed by the 2,000 Red Chinese and Russian technicians Badr imported, and feels Hassan is the man to prevent a Communist takeover of his neighbor...