Word: yemen
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Before the revolution in Iraq. De Carvalho hied himself to the fighting in Yemen, where he went deeper into royalist territory than any other U.S. correspondent. It was rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known...
This central state would be responsible for 1) defense and foreign policy, 2) a socialist economic framework, and 3) unified educational and cultural programs. But within the union, each state would have its own elected popular authority and its own parliament. Not represented in the Cairo talks was primitive Yemen, whose boss, Abdullah Sallal, is propped up by 20,000 Egyptian soldiers, but Sallal cabled Cairo announcing his total adherence to whatever is decided. But at week's end, the reported "close agreement" had apparently run into a snag. The three-power talks unexpectedly broke up and, according...
...Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...
...revolutionary wave next threatens the monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which have bitterly opposed Nasser's intervention in Yemen and have no love for the unity proposals of the Baath party. The beleaguered kingdoms last week seemed to be girding for a last-ditch stand. King Hussein alerted his Arab Legion, the most efficient fighting force in the Arab world. Prince Feisal, Premier of Saudi Arabia, protested that Egyptian planes had bombed Saudi towns on the Yemen border and angrily declared, "Let the world know that we are not afraid of war. We Saudis are indeed the children...
Positive Way. The United Nations' special envoy to the Middle East, Dr. Ralph Bunche, last week visited the republican areas of Yemen as part of the U.N. effort to prevent the Arkansas-sized nation from becoming an international battleground. Yemen had delayed Bunche's visit until an Egyptian armored column could seize the formerly royalist-held town of Marib, and then exhibited it to Bunche as evidence of republican control of the country. After a 60-minute session with Yemen's Strongman Abdullah Sallal, Bunche declared, "I was most impressed by his earnestness, sincerity, strength and seriousness...