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...Israel, a country of immigrants, the army has a broader mission than in other countries. It serves not merely as a military organization, but also as an indoctrination and training institution for its recruits who enter as unskilled immigrants from perhaps Yemen or Hungary, emerge as nationally conscious Israeli citizens trained for a trade. The army's top officers have been notably wide-ranging in their interests; one chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, left his job to study archaeology at Oxford, is now Israel's chief expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dayan's successor, 38-year...
ISRAEL The Man Who Would Be King "Praised be the name," said tubby Meoded Barzilai in an Israeli court, "I am a very rich man." He was penniless when he came from Yemen 30 years ago, but now he lives with his two wives* and ten children in a snappy Tel Aviv apartment house and enjoys a substantial interest in five movie houses, an ice factory and a real estate business...
Last week the British moved on the diplomatic front to secure the two pivots of the new command. Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom that borders on the Aden protectorate. With his aged father ailing, the bearded young prince now rules the country. Last year he negotiated in Moscow for shipments of Soviet arms, but recently has shown signs of nervousness over Soviet penetration. The British hoped to persuade him to help restore peace on the Aden-Yemen border...
...evolution has not proceeded evenly, and in places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen it has yet to start. King Saud's wives and concubines are transported in air-conditioned Cadillacs with special one-way glass to guard them from prying eyes...
...France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further: "Are you going to have us judged by people from Little Rock, by slavers from Yemen, by our enemies from behind the Iron Curtain...