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...year ago, Nasser discreetly removed republican President Abdullah Sallal, who had turned out to be so much of a Nasserite that his fiercely xenophobic republican colleagues were growing restive. If Sallal had become too fawningly dependent on Cairo, his successor, General Hassan Amri, proved to be too fiercely independent. So Nasser reinstalled Sallal as his proconsul. He was no more welcome than before. To demand that Nasser bounce Sallal once again, Amri flew to Cairo three weeks ago, taking with him, as Amri boasted, "the entire state of Yemen": nine Cabinet officers, three members of the Republican Council...
...Radio. Egyptian military police carted Amri and 15 of his most important officials off to military hospitals for "medical treatment." With Yemen's government thus quarantined in Cairo, Sallal proclaimed a new one in San'a, taking over the premiership as well as the presidency, and forming a Cabinet nearer to Nasser's desires. Sallal then took to the San'a radio to warn that the "traitors and deviationists" who had "led a campaign of doubt and suspicion between the U.A.R. and Yemen" would be brought to trial...
...civil war in Yemen that would not carry with it the stigma of humiliating defeat for Egypt. An expeditionary force of some 50,000 Egyptian troops was not able to do the job. Neither was a series of palavers between delegates of the unstable republican regime of Abdullah Sallal and those of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Yemen's deposed Imam Badr...
Peace hopes in Yemen never last very long. Two months ago, when moderate Republican Ahmed Mohammed Noman took over as Premier of the rugged desert land, hopes had risen that the three-year-old civil war might finally be brought to an end. Noman shoved pro-Nasser President Abdullah Sallal into the background, kicked the military fanatics out of his Cabinet and surrounded himself with civilians. Then he sat down to hammer out a preliminary formula for peace...
Fortnight ago, President Sallal established a supreme military council designed to curb Noman's power as civilian Premier. After Noman flew to Cairo to protest directly to Nasser, Sallal threw seven civilian Cabinet ministers into jail. Last week in Cairo, Noman resigned. "It is obvious that Sallal and his cronies are more interested in war than peace," he charged bitterly, and other Arab leaders sadly agreed. As if to prove the point, Sallal lost no time in naming a new Cabinet to replace Noman's. The new lineup: 13 military men, two civilians...