Word: sallal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preparation, the Egyptian expeditionary force was beefed up to 48,000 men, and a fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...
Republican President Abdullah Sallal, faced by recurrent Cabinet resignations and growing unrest, keeps running back and forth to Cairo for more help. Nasser gives it, but has reportedly called Sallal a "weak-minded boob." Yemen's Premier, General Hassan Amri, 48, a tough, no-nonsense operator, seems to be emerging as the new republican strongman...
Mass Raids. At week's end Nasser's response was all that Sallal could have hoped for. Armor and artillery poured into Yemen's ports from a flotilla of ships; ammunition and troop reinforcements arrived by transport plane from Cairo. Once again Nasser's fighter planes made mass raids on royalist strongholds in the mountains. As they have for the past two years, the royalists endured the pounding. When it was over, they crawled from caves and foxholes to dance and sing...
...leftist, Nasser-leaning Crown Prince Mohammed al Badr when the Russians first moved in to build a $15 million Red Sea port at Hodeida in the feudal land. When Al Badr turned conservative in 1962 under Republican attack, the Soviets reversed themselves to back the opposition headed by Abdullah Sallal, built him an airport and 150 low-cost houses, promised $72 million more in various projects. None have even been begun, since Moscow is plainly worried that it may have switched to the wrong horse in midstream. All told, Moscow has offered $142 million in aid, and other Red nations...
...Yemenis themselves, have yet to be heard from. A hardy and hard-fighting race, with long memories for feuds and vendettas, it may take some talking before they will lay down their arms. Nasser can perhaps make the republicans do his bidding, even to dumping their ailing President, Abdullah Sallal, if necessary. But only the royalist princes, not Feisal alone, can dispose of Imam Badr. A possible compromise might lie in recognizing the Imam as a religious potentate without civil powers. But until the contending parties in Yemen reach agreement, the accord between Nasser and Feisal remains only a piece...