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From the mountains of Yemen last week came news of a sharp turn in the fighting that greatly improves the prospects of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and dims the hopes of victory for the tenacious royalist tribesmen of Imam Mohamed el Badr. A brisk, twelve-week campaign has put Nasser's troops and tanks in control of most of the country...
Nasser has also been making gains on the diplomatic front. At an Arab peace conference last January, he skillfully detached Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal from the royalist side. Last month Hussein recognized the Yemen republic, and though Prince Feisal still supplies the Imam with money, he apparently has closed his borders to arms traffic...
...about Nasser's ambitions in oil-rich Arabia. Indeed, Anthony Boyle, who until last October was aide-de-camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden, recently turned up as an unofficial military adviser in the royalist mountains. Asked in Parliament who authorized Boyle's involvement in Yemen, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home insisted that "both the present High Commissioner and his predecessor have assured my right honorable friend that they were not aware the person in question was involved in any way." It was hardly a blanket denial of British participation...
...have exterminated South Arabia's chief rebels, colorfully called the Red Wolves of Radfan, was premature, to say the least. Since June, the Royal Air Force has flown 1,500 sorties against rebel tribesmen-devastating many of their villages as thoroughly as the Egyptians had done in Yemen. As much as anything, the British are challenging the claim of hegemony that Nasser hopes to carry to the conference table at the Arab summit meeting next month. Nasser wants the Saudi Arabs to join Jordan in official recognition of Yemen's republican regime, and he clearly thinks...
...recent successes, clear victory for Nasser is highly improbable. In the sere heights of northern Yemen, a man with a gun cannot easily be dislodged. Declared the Imam last week: "Yemen has fought for decades against foreign intruders, and is today stronger than ever. We are ready to fight this war for another ten years...