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...area and a key base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate" Aden. With 40,000 troops in Yemen supporting the rebels who deposed the despotic Imam Mohammed el Badr in September 1962-Nasser's force has actually grown by some 12,000 since he agreed a year ago to begin withdrawing his troops-he has been turning more and more heat on the British outpost...
...least 20,000 Egyptian soldiers are still in Yemen propping up the republican regime of President Ab dullah Sallal. All the while, money and munitions from the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan still pour across the 25-mile-wide buffer zone to royalist tribesmen supporting dethroned Imam Mohamed el Badr. So far as the actual fighting is concerned, it is still a stand off, with the republicans controlling the cities and the plains, and the royalists holed up in - and defending - key strong points in the central mountains...
Sick Rebel. One victim of the Yemen conflict is the man who started it all by overthrowing the Imam: ex-Palace Guard, now President and field marshal, Abdullah Sallal, 42. Last month Sallal flew to Cairo for talks with Nasser, but entered a hospital and was discharged for convalescence only last week. A physician who helped treat Sallal confided that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown. "President Nasser visited him once briefly. We gave him tranquilizers. We brought in Egypt's greatest comedian, Ismayen Yessin, to raise his spirits. We showed him movies. We flew in his wife...
...creating a 25-mile demilitarized strip along the Saudi-Yemeni frontier, and 3) supervising the phased withdrawal of 28,000 Egyptian troops who have spent the last eight months bloodily propping up the republican regime of President Abdullah Sallal against the royalist mountain tribes fighting to restore deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr to his 1,000-year-old throne...
...mountain headquarters in Yemen, the royalist leader Imam Badr told newsmen he intends to keep fighting against the "Egyptian colonization of Yemen," and boasted that if the Egyptians ever did leave, "we would occupy the entire country within a week." As for the United Nations, Badr said, "I am not interested in the U.N., which I once thought stood for justice. Only the people of Yemen will achieve a solution. We put our trust in God and in our people...