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...carted Amri and 15 of his most important officials off to military hospitals for "medical treatment." With Yemen's government thus quarantined in Cairo, Sallal proclaimed a new one in San'a, taking over the premiership as well as the presidency, and forming a Cabinet nearer to Nasser's desires. Sallal then took to the San'a radio to warn that the "traitors and deviationists" who had "led a campaign of doubt and suspicion between the U.A.R. and Yemen" would be brought to trial...
...Nasser's brand of political Medicare would hardly help his image in the Arab world-or the prospects for peace in Yemen. Nasser wants to keep the feud going so that his expeditionary force in Yemen will be positioned for a possible move into strategic Aden when the British withdraw year after next...
Saudi Arabia's government-controlled newspapers call the rulers of Egypt "butchers," and Cairo's press summons all good Arabs to "a battle of destiny" against Feisal, the King himself preaches Islamic brotherhood and cooperation. "President Nasser is one of our great Moslem leaders," says Feisal, "and it is inconceivable that he should consider our Islamic call to be aimed against...
...seething tangle of Middle Eastern intrigue, that is precisely what Nasser does consider it-and he is determined to frustrate Feisal's call to Mecca just as he torpedoed the fourth Arab summit meeting, which was to have been held this month, rather than sit at the same table with Feisal's "forces of reaction." Increasingly, the Arab states are being called to line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard...
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...