Word: sallal
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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...
...turbaned, gun-toting crowd shouted: ''We are with you, Sallal...
Silent Refuge. General Sallal last week seemed firmly in control of Yemen. His coup had originally been aimed at the feudalistic regime of the Imam known as Ahmad the Devil, who, aged 71, died of natural causes in mid-September before the conspirators could kill him. Ten days after Ahmad's son, Seif el Badr, ascended the throne, General Sallal surrounded the royal palace in San'a with 4,000 troops and began blasting away with tank guns. At first, the rebels believed that the new Imam had died in the ruins, but belatedly they learned that Badr...
...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...