Word: sallal
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...expedition was costing Nasser heavily in money ($1,000,000 a day) as well as in blood. Only last month, Yemen's self-proclaimed President, Abdullah Sallal, the former commander of the palace guard who turned against the Imam, seemed to have the tiny feudal land firmly under control. Even when Saudi Arabia's Nasser-hating Crown Prince Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein rushed arms, advisers and money to the royalists, they seemed to have little effect...
...that the distant little struggle could bring bloody conflict to other parts of the Middle East. In the hopes of isolating the feud, President Kennedy rushed off notes to Egypt's Nasser, Crown Prince Feisal of Saudi Arabia, Jordan's King Hussein and Rebel Leader Abdullah al Sallal, who now calls himself President of Yemen...
Once that is accomplished, the U.S. will probably extend recognition to Sallal's regime...
...Imam's ragtag army has been pushed from the cities and now occupies only a worthless fringe of eastern desert, Feisal and Hussein insist that, given a chance, the Imam will regain all of Yemen. For that reason, they argue that the U.S. should withhold recognition of President Sallal. But Washington is in a bind. In the face of continuing aid from Moscow and Peking to Sallal...
Domestic Fears. The threat of a land grab, however, may be merely Sallal's bargaining maneuver to win diplomatic recognition for his regime from Britain and the U.S.. which have withheld it out of deference to oil-rich Saudi Arabia. There have been signs that London and Washington may eventually reverse their stand, on the theory that if they do so, the Saudis could use the decision as a face-saving way to back down, end support for the Imam, and concentrate on their own serious internal problems. Last week the U.S. flew six F-100 jets over...