Word: sallal
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...Saud's old foe, Gamal Abdel Nasser, last December allowed Saud to take up residence in Egypt. Last week Saud, 65, showed that he is not an ungrateful guest. Flying to Yemen, he gave his wholehearted blessing to the republican regime of Nasser's puppet, General Abdullah Sallal, and declared that he himself is "the only legitimate monarch of Saudi Arabia." Back in Cairo, he went on the air to announce that he had "decided to return home at whatever cost" to reclaim his throne from his brother - and Nasser's current enemy - King Feisal...
...Egypt and embraced Nasser. His three-day triumphal "state visit" to Yemen was all the more ironical because it was Saud who in 1962 pledged Saudi Arabian support for the royalist guerrillas, who now hold two-thirds of the country and are waging a bloody civil war against Sallal's republicans and the 40,000 Egyptian troops allied with them. Now Saud ridicules the royalists as "conceited fellows," denounces Feisal, who gives them supplies, as "an imperialist." Before departing from Yemen, he grandly donated $1,000,000 to Sallal for reconstruction of the wartorn capital...
...whole Yemen affair, must face the fact that the war's cost-about $500,000 a day at its peak-is a heavy burden to the Egyptian economy. For all his Russian-made tanks and Ilyushin light bombers, Nasser cannot promise a quick rout of either the anti-Sallal rebels or the sandal-clad royalist guerrillas in the hills. He has resumed air attacks not only on the royalist redoubts but also on border towns in Saudi Arabia, which he claims serve as supply depots for the guerrillas. His foes even charge him with a desperate poison-gas bombing...
...Saudi Arabia-the Bank of Cairo and the Misr Bank-and Nasser retaliated by confiscating all of Feisal's Egyptian property, which is valued at about $47 million. In a setback for Nasser, Tunisia broke diplomatic relations with his puppet republican regime in Yemen, saying that the Sallal government no longer has power to govern the country...
...blood among the Arab countries has sent scores of defectors criss crossing in the air lanes. Sallal's charge d'affaires at the Yemeni embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...