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Triumphal Reception. At first it seemed as if his plan might succeed. As his plane landed at the seaport town of Kavalla, 200 miles north of Athens, royalist army officers greeted him and put him aboard a helicopter for a flight to the town square, which was filled with a cheering crowd. Some men lifted the King to their shoulders and carried him in triumph to the town hall, where he spoke to the crowd from a balcony. Cupping his hands like a megaphone, he shouted, "United we shall win! United we shall win!" Then, accompanied by two tanks that...
...received the news that Salonica was under junta control. As he turned back to Kavalla, he faced a shattering situation. In its months in power, the junta had carefully placed junior officers loyal to it on all general staffs, just in case their commanding officers should prove too royalist. Now a young major named Nicholas Petanis had raced from a base on the Greco-Turkish border to Kavalla and brought a column of tanks with him. He and other junior officers loyal to the junta arrested the three generals who were the King's chief supporters. That ended Constantine...
...without you." The chiefs were eager to help, especially since the Republicans' Egyptian defenders had been ordered home. They quickly agreed to mobilize their tribes, and to seal the agreement they devoured a great mound of lamb and rice proffered by the prince. Last week the Royalist siege of San'a began...
...their mountain redoubts swept Ben Hussein's 6,000 Royalist regulars and 50,000 armed tribesmen known as "the Fighting Rifles." Well trained (by French mercenaries) and well armed (with recoilless rifles, heavy mortars and bazookas), they quickly surrounded San'a, captured its main airport and severed the Chinese-built highway to the port of Hodeida, which was not only the pride of the Republican regime but a main route for Russian supplies...
...Arab summit. That left the government in charge of Field Marshal Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched a firing squad execute six suspected Royalist infiltrators, then dragged their bodies to the gates of the city and strung them up on poles...