Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been four months since Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered his big new win-the-war offensive in Yemen. In preparation, the Egyptian expeditionary force was beefed up to 48,000 men, and a fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...
White-haired Premier Noman, 60, believes in the republic but believes even more in compromise. Widely respected, and with friends in both camps, Noman is undoubtedly the man with the best chance yet of uniting Yemen. His first act was to name a new 15-man Cabinet remarkable for its even balance between Yemen's two main tribal groupings, the dominant mountain Zeidis, who are mostly royalist, and the Shafis, who are mostly republican. Another hopeful sign is that only two ministers are army officers and the rest civilians, including six who attended schools in the U.S., France...
...their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen and an end to the subsidy of Maria Theresa thalers used by the Imam to bribe tribes away from the republicans and keep the mountain Zeidis contented...
...such statistics cannot conceal Nasser's failure in his long campaign to achieve Arab unity, or in his military campaign in Yemen that ties down some 50,000 Egyptian troops. His pell-mell "factory hysteria" resulted in a muddle of mismanagement and high costs. A Fiat assembly plant near Cairo employs 5,000 workers but turns out only 15 cars a day due to material shortages. The Helwan iron and steel complex produces rails that were turned down as inferior by Egyptian national railways and were finally accepted only on Nasser's insistence. At year...
...Cairo for a state visit, did not even mention the German problem in his speech at an official dinner. Fact was, all the Arab states were probably willing to withdraw their ambassadors from Bonn, but many were reluctant to go much farther. Only the extremist bloc of Egypt, Yemen and Iraq, possibly joined by Syria and Algeria, seemed likely to go the whole...