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...news that came crackling over Radio Aden shortly after midnight indicated that once again intrigue was brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...
...seized power in mid-1978 as head of a triumvirate that overthrew (and executed) President Salem Robaye Ali for "laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza would be Soviet influenced and run by the P.L.O. Possible but not likely. With the exception of South Yemen, the Arab world is generally wary of Moscow's intentions. Radical Iraq is loosening its ties with the U.S.S.R. Syria has refused to sign a friendship treaty with Moscow, though the Soviets are its principal armorers. The Soviets also give weapons to the P.L.O., but most Arabs believe Arafat when he says: "I am no one's employee." There are pro-Moscow leaders in the P.L.O., but they stand little chance...
...begin to realize Carter's plan is a vote gathering blind. As Ted Kennedy's been saying, one Congressional aide whispers in my ear, why do it if it would only take us an extra 13 days to muster the first 100,000 men needed to fight in North Yemen. "The additional step of peacetime registration," argues a "Dear Colleague" sent out by the small-but growing ranks of Appropriations Committee members who are against Carter's plan, "is an empty symbol because it adds nothing to the speed of American mobilization in the event...
...sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear...