Word: imams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sukarno. Last week the United Nations announced that the parties embroiled in the Yemen civil war had accepted Bunker's proposal for a U.N. observer team with a double job. It will make sure that Saudi Arabia ends its support of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Imam Mohammed el Badr to the throne he lost seven months ago, and also that Egypt's 28,000-man expeditionary force pulls out as promised...
...plans for a new U.A.R. and the humiliation of the Arabs; for neither Nasser nor his pals can handle the tough Israeli army, especially since a third of Egypt's army is tied up in Yemen, where royalist tribes are still fighting to put the dethroned Imam back in power. As for King Hussein, as long as he controls his army, he controls Jordan. Meanwhile he is gaining time, and there is always the possibility that Nasser's new U.A.R. may break up as did the last one. Said a Western ambassador: "If I had to choose between...
...week's end Cairo Radio was spreading word of a cease-fire by mutual agreement in rebellion-torn Yemen. It said that Saudi Arabia was prepared to stop supplying the royalists supporting ex-Imam Badr with money and munitions, while Nasser may withdraw a token contingent of his 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force by April 20. Though Nasser's broadcasters are not the most reliable sources in the world, things may well come to this, for without doubt Jordan and Saudi Arabia-and all other Arabs-are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid angering Nasser...
...superbly. When Um Kalsoum sings We Revolutionists, the Bedouins in the desert are deeply stirred. One of the most popular songs among Arab kids is How We Build the High Dam at Aswan. Every transistor radio in the Middle East is a Nasser agent. When Yemen revolted against the Imam, Nasser sent them arms and transistors. Arab Communists who broadcast long, windy speeches from Bulgaria have not a chance against Nasser's entertainers...
...seriousness of purpose." Stopping off in Cairo on his way home, Bunche conferred for two hours with Nasser, then saw newsmen. He emphasized that the Yemeni people he saw supported Sallal's government "in a positive way." The radio voice of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore the Imam plaintively begged Bunche to visit the areas they controlled "and see the real truth-see the roads, ravines and mountains of Yemen littered with Egyptian dead." But, on this trip at least, Ralph Bunche was satisfied to draw his conclusions from one side only. Later...