Word: sallal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone who tries to restore it is an enemy...
...succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so that it could "catch up with the caravan of world progress." One of his first and most fatal acts was to appoint intriguing Colonel Sallal as commander of the palace guard...
...Sallal found it easy to switch his conspiracy from father to son. The new Imam had ruled for scarcely eight days when, one night last week, he found himself a prisoner in his own mud-brick palace in the capital city of San'a. The Imam tried to shoot his way out but Sallal blasted the palace with artillery, and luckless Badr died in the ruins. At midnight, Radio San'a announced the fall of the monarchy and "the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic...
...first nation to recognize the new republic was Russia, and Khrushchev bombastically cabled Sallal: "Any act of aggression against Yemen will be considered an act of aggression against the Soviet Union." No one yet seems to be threatening Yemen except the late Imam's relatives. Prince Hassan, Badr's uncle and chief of Yemen's U.N. delegation, took off from New York to crush the rebellion...
...Colonel Sallal boasted that if Prince Hassan set foot in Yemen he would be slaughtered. Then, shrewdly, the Colonel ordered immediate and substantial pay raises for the 12,000 troops of Yemen's ragtag army...