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...sides began quarreling over the first issue raised: what to call the transition state that is supposed to exist until a plebiscite can be held next year. The Royalists wanted the name to be Kingdom of Yemen but were willing to settle for a neutral title like State of Yemen. The Republicans insisted on having the word republic or republican in the title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal...
Yemeni tribesmen in the small and remote village of Haradh last week lopped off the heads of two oxen as sacrifices for peace. Yet the 55 delegates gathered for truce talks on a nearby plain seemed no closer to settling Yemen's three-year civil war than they were when they first convened three weeks ago. Reported an Arab newsman: "It is the dialogue of the deaf. Both sides talk, but neither side listens...
...encouraging results. When the U.S.-aid agreement with Egypt expired in June, the Johnson Administration pointedly let it lapse until such time as Cairo cleared up some "unresolved policy differences" between the two nations. Within weeks, the U.A.R. agreed to a cease-fire in its nasty little war in Yemen, moved to settle private U.S. claims against its government (including $500,000 for a USIS library that was wrecked by a mob), and began a series of U.S.-suggested domestic economic programs. In response, President Johnson has authorized negotiations that will send some $55 million in aid to Egypt next...
Activity by the main rebel group, the National Liberation Front, which operates out of nearby Yemen, had been on the upswing ever since August. It was then that a London conference to prepare plans for a South Arabian federation, which is due to gain independence in 1968, broke down in disagreement.* On Aug. 29, a British police superintendent was assassinated, the eleventh Briton to die by rebel violence in the past 21 months. Two days later Sir Arthur Charles, the British Speaker of the Aden Legislative Council, was shot and killed as he was leaving his tennis club at sundown...
...Kipling country, Indians and Pakistanis last week slammed away at one another with polyglot curses and American weapons. In South Viet Nam, sticks of paratroopers fell and bloomed from big-bellied U.S. Hercules transports in the grandest airdrop of the war. In Yemen sun-blackened Arab guerrillas warily avoided Egyptian troops; in the Sudan, rebellious blacks kept up a tenacious hit-and-run pressure on Khartoum's troops. Befeathered Simbas in the Congo set ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans...