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...troops, the first veterans to return home from the seven-month civil war in Yemen, formed up in Republic Square, where President Gamal Abdel Nasser mounted the dais, advanced to a battery of microphones and cried: "O Men! Faithful sons of your nation, image of its heroes, vanguard of its march to freedom, socialism and unity, you have witnessed on your way here the delight of your nation over your victorious return!" The soldiers clearly shared the nation's delight, for even Egypt's poverty-stricken villages would look good after the harsh wilderness of Yemen...
Nasser's 34-minute speech contained menace as well as hyperbole. He got down to cases about his intentions in Yemen, where, up till now, each returning battalion has been replaced by an equal number of new Egyptian levies. Egyptians would remain in Yemen, he said, "until it is ascertained beyond any shadow of a doubt, and beyond deception, that the reactionary elements have, as a result of their defeat, contained their rancor against the revolution...
...recent months 62-year-old King Saud of Saudi Arabia has suffered a succession of intestinal, stomach, chest, circulatory and heart ailments. Often they seem to be aggravated by the swirling political events in his desert capital of Riyadh. After the Yemen rebellion last fall threatened the stability of his throne, Saud's health was so upset that he turned the government over to his able brother, Prince Feisal, and flew to Switzerland for treatment...
...everyone. Saudi Arabia had already been cutting back on its supply of money and guns to the royalists, largely because Egypt's projected plan for unity with Syria and Iraq made Nasser far too formidable an opponent. The U.N. intervention also gives Nasser a way out of the Yemen mess, which has tied up a third of his army at a cost of $1,000,000 a day and nearly 5,000 casualties. On balance, Nasser emerges as a clear winner. Though promising to remove his troops, he has the privilege of leaving an unspecified number for the "training...
About the only group not consulted was Imam Mohammed and his royalists, whose grip on Yemen has dwindled from half the country to the mountain spine in central Yemen. Some 25,000 armed supporters of the Imam are still in action and still dangerous, but they are increasingly isolated, and short of fuel and weapons. With the royalists cut off from Saudi supplies, Nasser may well be able gradually to consolidate his gains, cut down on his commitments, and ultimately complete his victory by admitting republican Yemen into his grandiose scheme for a new United Arab Republic...