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...Middle East, where hates flare and die with the course of the sun, there is no letup in the feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who leads the Arab world's revolutionary camp, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who leads the conservative forces...
Nowhere is this rivalry more sharply drawn than in the arid sands and craggy cliffs of Yemen. There, in four years of sporadic skirmishing, the 50,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Nasser have been fought to a standstiil by tribesmen loyal to the ousted Imam Badr, who holds the hills and sustains his ragged army with supplies and arms from Feisal. Of late, however, Nasser has had less trouble fending off Feisal's royalist friends than in keeping in line the ragtag republican regime he sponsors in Yemen's capital...
...year ago, Nasser discreetly removed republican President Abdullah Sallal, who had turned out to be so much of a Nasserite that his fiercely xenophobic republican colleagues were growing restive. If Sallal had become too fawningly dependent on Cairo, his successor, General Hassan Amri, proved to be too fiercely independent. So Nasser reinstalled Sallal as his proconsul. He was no more welcome than before. To demand that Nasser bounce Sallal once again, Amri flew to Cairo three weeks ago, taking with him, as Amri boasted, "the entire state of Yemen": nine Cabinet officers, three members of the Republican Council...
Notes on the Table. A few days before the brotherhood's 92 were sentenced, one of Nasser's courts decreed a life sentence for Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin, 52, who was accused of passing security information to an alleged CIA agent named Bruce Taylor Odell, officially listed as a political attaché at the U.S. embassy in Cairo (TIME, Aug. 6, 1965). Nasser's government claimed that Amin, a longtime confidant of Nasser before his arrest, met Odell regularly to divulge information on such matters as Nasser's relations with his Vice President and with...
...Odell's handwritten notes on a table near by. Odell was released because of his diplomatic immunity, and immediately flew back to Washington "for reassignment." "I am innocent," Amin insisted last week. "I have faith in my country, and history will reveal the truth." As far as Nasser was concerned, it already...