Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabian aid to the royalist rebels, 2) 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...
Holed up in the impregnable mountains of central Yemen, the royalists make hit-and-run raids in all directions, have sometimes infiltrated as close as the military airport outside San'a. The Egyptians have been on the defensive since February and make only local counterattacks to regain objectives, such as water sources, seized by the royalists. The offensive is left to Egypt's Russian-built fighter and bomber planes, which plaster royalist villages with high explosive and napalm. There were reports last week that the Egyptians are now using gas warfare to pry the rebels out of their...
...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...
...accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ's early disciples was considerably expanded. This oral tradition consisted almost exclusively of Jesus' sayings; thus his actions as recounted in the Gospels, and the geographical circumstances of his words-for example, the mountain of the Sermon on the Mount-were almost certainly the additions, based on extrapolation or invention, of a later tradition or of the Evangelists...
...perhaps the loss was most deeply felt in Sotto il Monte, the mountain village where John was born. There, even local Communists tied black rib bons of mourning to the yellow and white Vatican flags that were every where on display. "We have lost a friend," said one villager. "This must be the only village in Italy that is not thinking of who will now be the Pope...