Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tempting Target. Thus did Nasser, in a breast-beating May Day speech, serve notice last week that the 45-month-old battle for Yemen was entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over...
...There is an end to everyone's patience, even ours," steamed Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "In the past few years, the Saudis have trained Yemenis to enter Yemen and ambush Egyptians. We left Saudi Arabia alone. But today our policy is different. If aggression is carried out in Yemen, or if there is infiltration into her territory from Saudi Arabia, then we shall strike at the bases of that aggression and occupy them...
...Yemen. Egypt has committed 70,000 troops to the Republican cause at a cost of $500,000 a day, a drain its sick economy can ill afford. Casualties have been high: an estimated 600 Egyptian soldiers were wounded last month. Even more demoralizing are the brutalities of the Saudi-supported Yemeni Royalists, who like to send captured Egyptian soldiers back to their camps with their ears and noses chopped off. For all its sacrifices in Yemen, Egypt still controls less than half of the country...
...policy at home, Nasser is not about to pull out empty-handed after 3½ years of fighting. Yemen has become a microcosm of the whole Middle East struggle between Socialist and Conservative forces-a struggle that is not going at all well for Nasser. The latest blow was Saudi Arabia's scheme for an anti-Nasser Islamic Alliance, which has rallied open support from Jordan, Tunisia and Iran, and tacit backing from Kuwait and Morocco. Nasser is also locked in a struggle with the Red Chinese, who are sharply extending their influence in Republican Yemen. Already Peking...
Meantime, Yemen's Royalist forces are just as determined. They recruit retired officers from France, Belgium, Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Jordan, receive arms and financial help from Saudi Arabia, Britain and Iran. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdoms are unstinting. Recently, a Royalist Yemen emissary visited Sheik Shakhbut, ruler of Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, and asked for a contribution of 5,000 pounds sterling. He walked away with ?100,000. "You are all astonished?" the sheik shrugged to his advisers. "Do you know how many cases of ammunition ?100,000 will buy, and how long they...