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...months before the election, Hassan also entered the race by having his closest confidant, Interior-Agriculture Minister Ahmed Reda Guedira, 40, organize a pro-Hassan party christened the Front for the Defense of Constitutional Institutions. Unsurprisingly, the F.D.C.I. enjoyed the use of government vehicles to haul wondering tribesmen to rallies, plus the organized support of the government's administrative bureaucracy. Flush with campaign cash, F.D.C.I. Leader Guedira (who got some pointers when he witnessed the 1960 U.S. election campaign) passed out thousands of free miniature soccer balls, T-shirts and campaign buttons bearing the royalist party color (yellow). More...
...Irian to Indonesia's Sukarno. Last week the United Nations announced that the parties embroiled in the Yemen civil war had accepted Bunker's proposal for a U.N. observer team with a double job. It will make sure that Saudi Arabia ends its support of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Imam Mohammed el Badr to the throne he lost seven months ago, and also that Egypt's 28,000-man expeditionary force pulls out as promised...
Preparations took two years. The U.S. expedition assembled at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Finally, late in February with 895 Nepalese porters and 32 Sherpa tribesmen (for high-altitude work), the climbers set out on an 180-mile northward trek. Along the way, team doctors took time out to battle a Nepalese smallpox epidemic, flying in vaccine and administering it themselves. At last the climbers neared the looming Everest itself. They set up their base camp at 17,000 ft., cautiously began to feel their way through the treacherous Khumbu icefall...
King Hussein was not dependent on relatives alone. He drew support from businessmen, farmers and the middle class -people with something to lose. Bedouin chiefs led 4,000 tribesmen into the gardens of Basman Palace to shout "Long live Hussein, our King!" When the Bed ouins overenthusiastically roared anti-Nasser slogans, Hussein stopped them with an angry gesture, offering conciliation to Nasser with the words "Jordan is the heart of the Arab homeland and seeks Arab unity...
...there were no outright Red attacks, and the neutralists lost no new territory. But hostilities threatened to erupt from another quarter. Around the perimeter of the plain, right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan was reinforcing his positions, and in the foothills behind the Pathet Lao lines, tough, well-armed Meo tribesmen, who have no love for the Reds, posed a dangerous threat to Communist supply routes from North Viet...