Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the British moved on the diplomatic front to secure the two pivots of the new command. Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom that borders on the Aden protectorate. With his aged father ailing, the bearded young prince now rules the country. Last year he negotiated in Moscow for shipments of Soviet arms, but recently has shown signs of nervousness over Soviet penetration. The British hoped to persuade him to help restore peace on the Aden-Yemen border...
...evolution has not proceeded evenly, and in places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen it has yet to start. King Saud's wives and concubines are transported in air-conditioned Cadillacs with special one-way glass to guard them from prying eyes...
...France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further: "Are you going to have us judged by people from Little Rock, by slavers from Yemen, by our enemies from behind the Iron Curtain...
...Among countries not represented: Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where men are men and women are unequal...
...bland proposals that the Big Four forswear the use of force in the Mideast, the notes actually added up to a device to win an Arab audience for the charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian governments. Like the two Soviet naval squadrons which last week moved through the Mediterranean showing the Red flag in Albania and Yugoslavia, the notes served incidentally to assure Arab opportunists that the U.S.S.R. had moved into the Middle East to stay...