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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...
Tribal Balance. By last week something had to give-and it was the republican Cabinet. Out went Strongman Amri, and in as new Premier came Moderate Ahmed Noman, who had resigned as president of the republican Consultative Council last December in protest against Sallal's "failure to fulfill the people's aspirations," that is, his failure to negotiate instead of fight. Two Deputy Premiers had joined Noman in resigning, and one of them, Mohammed Zubeiri, had founded a group called Allah's Party as a third force to unite royalists and republicans. The premiership would probably have...
...unity on the fractured republican side, holding out the carrot of Egyptian troop withdrawals to the royalists. As an added inducement to lure the Imam out of his cave and to the conference, Noman announced that he personally would head the republican delegation at Khamir-leaving the hated President Sallal behind...
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...