Word: saif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Crown Prince el Badr arrived in Damascus to tell Nasser of Yemen's adherence to the republic. Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed will keep his throne and his absolute power, and the arrangement constituted little more than a close alliance. But the battle was joined for leadership of Arab unity...
...Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful of army coups in nearby Egypt and Syria...
...Homme Qui Saif. Last spring backed by EGA, The Answer Man crossed the Atlantic. He broadcasts to Great Britain over Radio Luxembourg; in Germany as Der Antwortmann; in France as L'Homme Qui Salt; in Holland as De Antwoord-Man; to Poland as Dr. Wszech-wiedzki. A surprising number of questions pour in from behind the Iron Curtain. Those not answered on the air are answered by letters sent in plain envelopes and without mention of The Answer Man. Ticklish political questions are cleared through the State Department...