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Algeria and Syria demanded that all Arab nations 1) break cultural and diplomatic ties with the U.S., Britain and West Germany for allegedly supporting Israel during the war, 2) organize a total trade boycott of the three countries, and 3) continue their current oil embargo. Egypt, Iraq and Republican Yemen were in general support. On the right, oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya-joined by Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco-insisted on maintaining all ties with the West and scrapping the oil embargo, which was costing each of them $500,000 a day in lost revenues. "It is time...
...Hope for Yemen. One mildly hopeful note came when Egypt announced that it was ready to end its five-year war in Yemen, where 20,000 Egyptian troops are propping up a wobbly republican regime against 10,000 Saudi-supported tribesmen who want to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad proposed that Egypt and Saudi Arabia revive their Jeddah Agreement of 1965, which calls for formation of a caretaker government, a phased withdrawal of Egyptian forces, and a plebiscite among Yemeni tribesmen to pick a permanent form of government...
...action on Yemen, as well as all other important decisions, was deferred for a future summit of Arab leaders. But the delegates were even having trouble agreeing on a time or a place for such a meeting...
...aligned nations like India. Last week Poland gave him a $20 million loan for industrial development, and East Germany announced $100 million more credits. But the strain will continue as long as Nasser insists upon keeping Egypt on a war footing against Israel and pursuing his expensive war in Yemen. Last week both Britain and the U.S. accused the Egyptians of bombing Yemeni royalists with poison gas. The two nations indicated that they would support international action by the Red Cross and the United Nations to stop such practices...
...ready to do it all over again. Egypt, which lost 356 planes and 700 tanks in the war, was receiving regular shipments of Soviet MIGs and tanks. To make up for the 15,000 Egyptian soldiers killed, captured or missing, Nasser simply recalled 15,000 of his troops from Yemen. Why not? They had not been notoriously successful there either...