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...sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates that are joined with Aden in the Federation of South Arabia add up to an area of shifting sands, tribal fiefs, and steadily building trouble. A pair of powerful leftist terrorist organizations - the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.O.S.Y.), which is backed by Nasser, and the home grown rebels of the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) - have been jockeying for positions of power ever since Britain promised to give the federation its independence in January. With four months to go, the terrorists are operating with increasing urgency...
...agreement of sorts did come out of Khartoum. In a two-hour conference at the home of Sudanese Premier Mohammed Mahgoub, Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal promised to stop their five-year confrontation in Yemen. They signed a treaty under which Nasser will pull out the 20,000 troops that now prop up Yemen's Leftist Premier Abdullah Sallal, Feisal will stop sending arms to Sallal's tough Royalist enemies, and three neutral Arab states will send in observers to make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost...
...ready for that sort of agreement was doubtful indeed. Feeling the economic squeeze of his losses of $750,000 in tolls each day that the Suez Canal remains closed, Nasser has, to be sure, been talking more moderately. He has suggested that he might be ready to bring the Yemen war to an end, and he has hinted that he would like to restore diplomatic ties with the U.S. But to accept Israel as Tito proposed still seems to be too bitter a pill for defeated Arabs to swallow. Obviously even Tito had his doubts that Nasser would take...
About 100 mercenaries are now training royalist guerrillas in the hills of Yemen, and a squad of ex-R.A.F. pilots known as "the Dangerous Dozen" fly jet fighters for Saudi Arabia. In the Nigerian civil war, a mercenary of uncertain nationality named Johnny ("Kamikaze") Brown pilots the battered B-26 bomber owned by the rebel regime of Biafra...
Fringe Benefits. All meres are well paid. Pilots in Saudi Arabia command as much as $2,800 a month, and meres in Yemen, many of them radio and demolition technicians, earn more than $1,000 a month. In the Congo, where the hazards are greater and more than 100 mercenaries have been killed in three years, the pay is less. It averages $800 a month-with bonuses for perilous assignments. But there are also fringe benefits that come from plundering captured properties...