Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cairo's newspapers, the little notices began appearing with tragic frequency -obituaries of young Egyptian officers killed in action. Where was the fighting? The papers did not say, but the bloody front was certainly in Yemen, where President Gamal Abdel Nasser had poured in some 12,000 troops to support the rebels who overthrew Imam Mohamed el Badr three months...
feels that it must maintain its presence in Yemen's capital...
Feisal and Hussein argue that Nasser does not really intend to pull out his thousands of troops in any case. The Saudi Arabs are certain that Egypt's boss has his eye on their huge oil fields-fifth biggest producers in the world-and hopes to use Yemen as a springboard for revolt in the rest of the Arabian peninsula...
...Kennedy plan: Nasser's troops, which have been supporting the rebels, should withdraw from Yemen while Saudi Arabia and Jordan halt their aid to the Imam...
...plan, since it would involve U.S. recognition of the "rebels." Though the Imam's ragtag army has been pushed from the cities and now occupies only a worthless fringe of eastern desert, Feisal and Hussein insist that, given a chance, the Imam will regain all of Yemen. For that reason, they argue that the U.S. should withhold recognition of President Sallal. But Washington is in a bind. In the face of continuing aid from Moscow and Peking to Sallal...