Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formula was a compromise that would bring Royalists and Republicans into the government, and it won the immediate support of most Arab leaders. All went well, in fact, until Noman began filling in the specifics necessary for final settlement and ceasefire. When he let it be known that the 50,000 troops sent by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser would have to be replaced by a joint Royalist-Republican peace force, the Nasserites suddenly lost interest in converting Yemen into a Noman's land...
...with friends in both camps, Noman is undoubtedly the man with the best chance yet of uniting Yemen. His first act was to name a new 15-man Cabinet remarkable for its even balance between Yemen's two main tribal groupings, the dominant mountain Zeidis, who are mostly royalist, and the Shafis, who are mostly republican. Another hopeful sign is that only two ministers are army officers and the rest civilians, including six who attended schools in the U.S., France or Egypt...
Overbearing Allies. Noman's peace drive obviously has the tacit blessing of Nasser, who is pained by the $500,000-a-day drain and the occupation of the Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen...
...week's end there was still no response from the royalist side. Undismayed, Noman continued his gentle pressure on the combatants, trying to establish some unity on the fractured republican side, holding out the carrot of Egyptian troop withdrawals to the royalists. As an added inducement to lure the Imam out of his cave and to the conference, Noman announced that he personally would head the republican delegation at Khamir-leaving the hated President Sallal behind...
...pointed out that the Nationalists and Partisans had fought each other as much as they fought the Nazis because of political disagreement between Tito's Communist partisan resistance and the royalist-republican nationalist resistance...