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...year-old temple complex in northern Yemen. Known in Arabic as Mahram Bilqis--"the Queen of Sheba's sanctified place"--the sprawling ruins are situated about 80 miles east of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and just a few miles from the ancient citadel of Marib, at the edge of the forbidding Arabian desert. "The Queen of Sheba," he asserts, "is likely to have lived in Marib and worshipped at Mahram Bilqis...
...East, Dr. Ralph Bunche, last week visited the republican areas of Yemen as part of the U.N. effort to prevent the Arkansas-sized nation from becoming an international battleground. Yemen had delayed Bunche's visit until an Egyptian armored column could seize the formerly royalist-held town of Marib, and then exhibited it to Bunche as evidence of republican control of the country. After a 60-minute session with Yemen's Strongman Abdullah Sallal, Bunche declared, "I was most impressed by his earnestness, sincerity, strength and seriousness of purpose." Stopping off in Cairo on his way home, Bunche...
...titles of the poems are "Hymn to the Deathless," "The Dying Man at Marib," "Dying Man To His Soul," "Interlude," "Nenette Dances," "The City," "Ballade of the Garland," "The Wrestlers," "Necromancy," and "Burnt Musk and Balsam...