Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet sale of arms to Egypt's military junta is only the most spectacular of the Kremlin's penetrations. Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Afghanistan are considering similar offers. Last week Soviet commissars signed a treaty of friendship with Yemen and promised to support Libya for a seat in the U.N. The Hungarians are shipping freight cars to Egypt, Poland is wooing Ceylon. East Germany is at work on Lebanon. Czechoslovakia, the most advanced industrial nation in the Soviet orbit, spearheads the trade offensive. The Czechs are providing spare parts for guns to Afghanistan, trucks to Jordan, tractors...
...Yemen announced that it was negotiating a "friendship pact" with the U.S.S.R...
...From Yemen and El Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates...
...Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa," said La Graviére, "I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African dealers to the Arab states of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Arab is a proud man and there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury...
...Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful...