Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compromise. Widely respected, and with friends in both camps, Noman is undoubtedly the man with the best chance yet of uniting Yemen. His first act was to name a new 15-man Cabinet remarkable for its even balance between Yemen's two main tribal groupings, the dominant mountain Zeidis, who are mostly royalist, and the Shafis, who are mostly republican. Another hopeful sign is that only two ministers are army officers and the rest civilians, including six who attended schools in the U.S., France or Egypt...
...lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen and an end to the subsidy of Maria Theresa thalers used by the Imam to bribe tribes away from the republicans and keep the mountain Zeidis contented...
...last two months he has been meeting with them seven or eight times a week, usually in his oval office or his private quarters. Sometimes the setting is the presidential retreat at Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, where he adjourned with all three last March after deciding to send U.S. marines to Danang. He often sees individual members of the group three or four times a day, is in touch with one or another of them almost hourly. Last week he had only two formal meetings with them, but the formal meetings are just...
...bombings in the South, that their supplies from North Viet Nam have been rudely interrupted by American air strikes (as well as by malaria and dysentery along the Ho Chi Minh trail), that they are losing support among the people, and that the Communists are now regrouping in the mountain plateaus above Saigon as if for a last stand. "In short," wrote Chaffard, "a certain reversal of opinion has begun...
...anyone who can still remember the late Radio Comedian Fred Allen's dry wit, these letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance...