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...PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. In an impressive account of the political maneuvering that led to the Peace of Paris (1783), Historian Morris holds that royalist France, far from being a loyal friend, would have scuttled the newly founded U.S. except for the canniness of Jay, Franklin and Adams...
...more than a month Yemenis from both Royalist and Republican factions have been holding "peace talks" at the mountain village of Haradh to end the bloody (10,000 battle deaths) civil war that has plagued the country for three years. They have not been very successful. The conferees, who held their sessions in white tents symbolizing peace, never got past the first point: what to call the transition state that was supposed to exist until a country-wide plebiscite could be held in one year's time. The Republicans insisted that the word Republican must be included...
...PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. In an impressive account of the political maneuvering that led to the Peace of Paris (1783), Historian Morris holds that, far from being a loyal friend, royalist France would have scuttled the newly founded U.S. except for the canniness of Jay, Franklin and Adams...
...conference to end the bloody (100,000 battle deaths) fighting between insurgent Republicans and Royalist mountain tribesmen was actually convened by the principal backers of the two factions. The Republicans are supported by 70,000 Egyptian troops; the Royalist forces of deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis...
...Rocks. The pact provides for 1) the gradual withdrawal from Yemen of the 50,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force within a ten-month period and the cessation of all Saudi help to the royalists; and 2) the formation of a Yemen Congress of 50, representing all factions, which will be charged with forming a transitional regime and establishing procedures for a national plebiscite to determine Yemen's future government. Feisal proved willing to give in to Nasser on points that would help him save face back home in Cairo, but there was no compromise on basics. Nasser hoped...