Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen...
...positions hardened on both sides, the U.S.'s Raymond A. Hare, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia, flew in for talks with both Feisal and Nasser. In the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Hare urged Feisal to cut off Royalist aid and give Nasser a chance to pull back without losing face. Feisal seemed willing-if he could be sure of Nasser. In Alexandria, Nasser refused, even though by doing so his country risks losing part or all of a new $150 million U.S. food-distribution program, and another $100 million worth of industrial-development...
Meantime, Yemen's Royalist forces are just as determined. They recruit retired officers from France, Belgium, Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Jordan, receive arms and financial help from Saudi Arabia, Britain and Iran. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdoms are unstinting. Recently, a Royalist Yemen emissary visited Sheik Shakhbut, ruler of Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, and asked for a contribution of 5,000 pounds sterling. He walked away with ?100,000. "You are all astonished?" the sheik shrugged to his advisers. "Do you know how many cases of ammunition ?100,000 will buy, and how long they...
...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...