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...Egypt last week, the Arab summit was over, but one important guest lingered on. He was Saudi Arabia's lean, eagle-beaked Premier Feisal, who during the week-long conference of Middle East leaders had huddled privately with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser with a view to finding a solution in the bitter, two-year war in Yemen...
Both Feisal and Nasser now knew that military victory was probably impossible in the bleak, strife-torn land where some 40,000 Egyptian troops have been propping up a wobbly republican regime against the Saudi-backed royalist tribesmen who are trying to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. The civil war has cost scores of thousands of Yemeni lives as well as an estimated 10,000 Egyptian casualties. It has also put off the day all Arabs dream of when they can turn their united forces against Israel...
Brimming Heart. For Nasser, the very talks with Feisal were tacit admission that his forces were not really scoring ringing victory after ringing victory, a startling retreat from the extravagant claims he had been making in the past. Nasser also backed down from his pretense that the Yemen war was caused solely by infiltrators from Saudi Arabia and the British colony of Aden. In their official communiqué the two leaders promised to 1) cooperate fully to solve the existing differences between the various factions in Yemen, 2) work together in preventing armed clashes in Yemen, and 3) reach...
...Arab leaders came and went in long Cadillacades, Egyptian information officers boasted of unity and progress. But soon word of serious disagreements leaked from the white-pillared conference room. Not once, but three times, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser snapped to the delegates, "We are going around in a vicious circle, and this must stop immediately...
Purposeful Arms. Prince Feisal will probably try to keep the Yemen issue off the Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...