Word: royaliste
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...would be the destruction of all Gamal Abdel Nasser's plans for a new U.A.R. and the humiliation of the Arabs; for neither Nasser nor his pals can handle the tough Israeli army, especially since a third of Egypt's army is tied up in Yemen, where royalist tribes are still fighting to put the dethroned Imam back in power. As for King Hussein, as long as he controls his army, he controls Jordan. Meanwhile he is gaining time, and there is always the possibility that Nasser's new U.A.R. may break up as did the last...
Before the revolution in Iraq. De Carvalho hied himself to the fighting in Yemen, where he went deeper into royalist territory than any other U.S. correspondent. It was rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known...
...hailed as the man who destroyed Egypt's corrupt past and gave Arabs a new dignity. His picture, with its Pepsodent smile, is found in every corner of the Middle East, from Iraqi bazaars to the huts of royalist Yemeni tribesmen who still cling to Nasser's picture even though they are fighting Nasser's troops...
...envoy to the Middle East, Dr. Ralph Bunche, last week visited the republican areas of Yemen as part of the U.N. effort to prevent the Arkansas-sized nation from becoming an international battleground. Yemen had delayed Bunche's visit until an Egyptian armored column could seize the formerly royalist-held town of Marib, and then exhibited it to Bunche as evidence of republican control of the country. After a 60-minute session with Yemen's Strongman Abdullah Sallal, Bunche declared, "I was most impressed by his earnestness, sincerity, strength and seriousness of purpose." Stopping off in Cairo...
...George de Carvalho. From Beirut last week he cabled his report on a 23-day trek in which he crossed the peaks, plateaus and wadis from Aden to the Saudi Arabian border, traveling a total of 1,000 miles by camel, donkey, car and shoe leather without once leaving royalist-held territory (see map). Along the way, Correspondent De Carvalho was repeatedly shot at by Egyptian fighter planes, tanks, mortars, and artillery, saw two of his six Yemeni guards killed and one wounded in battle...