Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palaces and refugee camps, he updated the Arabian Nights into Alsop's Fables. In the new palace at Jeddah ("the house that Aramco built"), guarded by blackamoors with gilded scimitars, King Saud of Saudi Arabia entertained 400 dinner guests at once, headed by little Imam Ahmed of Yemen, "who waggles his big, richly turbaned head like a teetotum in a sort of passion of politeness." While the guests drank orange pop, "a court bard, descended straight from the poetic line that sang before Agamemnon at Mycenae . . . recites a long poem in praise of the King and Imam into...
...Minister Amer. an earnest, soft-spoken farmer boy from the Upper Nile, is the No. 2 man of Egypt's revolutionary regime, the closest confidant of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the leader who would assume command of the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen should war break out with Israel...
Obviously, the U.S. also hoped that the meaning of its move and its motives were not lost on Egypt's Nasser, who was off in southern Arabia last week lining up little Yemen in his neutralist military alliance...
...official spokesmen from Israel and Yemen reiterated old charges in a forum last night and deplored the other side's unwillingness to compromise...
...from their differing homes and integrates them into the life of the nation, has done the decisive educational work. Every army commander is told that he is primarily a teacher, and "only when you go into battle are you a military commander." Today five Jews newly arrived from Iraq, Yemen and Libya sit in Parliament, and the first Yemeni boys have won air force pilots' wings. The doubling of Israel's population in its first six years while retaining the form and spirit of Western democracy is a remarkable achievement of internal stability...