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...Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa," said La Graviére, "I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African dealers to the Arab states of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Arab is a proud man and there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury...
...Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful...
...Arab Middle East into artificial chunks, maneuverable as so many chessmen. Near the end of World War II, when the xenophobic Arabs began dreaming of union, the Foreign Office forestalled it by inventing the Arab League, a loose forum in which Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen systematically demonstrated that they had a common religion and a common culture but little common ground...
...Communist, Deputy Maurice Thorez, continues to draw salary and secretarial allowance "even though he has not set foot in the Assembly for years. Surely the Communist Party doesn't need the money. Mr. Thorez rides around in a car modeled on that of the King of Yemen. He lives on the Riviera in a magnificent villa surrounded by swarms of bodyguards. For my part, I suggest that two Deputies living in concubinage should receive only one allowance...
...addition to Pakistan and Indonesia, the abstentious were: afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. El Salvador and Lebanon were absent...