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...demand for the coin that even after Maria Theresa's death the Vienna mint continued to make thalers, which, to convince untutored natives of their authenticity, were stamped 1780, the year the Empress died. Decade after decade, thalers continued to tinkle at bazaars from Istanbul to Yemen. Islamic missionaries carried the coins into Africa, where traders used them to buy slaves for the U.S. South. During the Civil War, the North used them to pay for Egyptian cotton...
Pugnacious Poem. The tie with Yemen had been bizarre from the first. Nasser had hoped to reform the Stone Age kingdom and make it part of a Pan-Arab nation; Yemen's wily old Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing his country (where slavery, public flogging and eye-for-an-eye justice are still practiced). The Imam dodged all meetings with Nasser, barred the twelve-member U.A.R. committee from convening in Yemen, and tore up all of its recommendations for reform. He was unimpressed when, in his new drive...
After Syria's breakaway last September, the three-year-old United Arab States consisted only of two members-Egypt and tiny, backward Yemen. Last week, Nasser kicked out Yemen. With Egypt thus turned into a federation of one but still clinging to the now meaningless title of United Arab Republic, Nasser promised new glories for "Arab socialism," started off by lavishly insulting his old Arab enemies and generally agitating the Middle East...
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