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...times are changing. Last week a Moslem religious court convicted Ahmed el Osamy, a 60-year-old government worker who ran one of San'a's top boydellos, of being a practicing pederast, and sentenced him to death. Under an ancient Yemeni law, the execution should have been carried out by throwing him from "the highest place"-presumably the minaret of a mosque-but the judges allowed Osamy to be shot instead. "They thought of throwing him from a plane," explained Minister of Education Mohammed el Khalidy, "but that's expensive...
Force if Necessary. As for attacking Najran, Qizan and other "bases of aggression," Nasser was acting as if he meant business. "After all," he reasoned last week, "these were originally Yemeni towns, which the Saudis usurped in 1930." Toward week's end, some 5,000 Egyptian troops were massing along the border only a few miles south of Qizan. About the same time, Republican Yemen issued a formal statement, claiming Qizan and Najran as Yemen territory and pledging to "regain-by force if necessary-these usurped areas...
...Egypt has committed 70,000 troops to the Republican cause at a cost of $500,000 a day, a drain its sick economy can ill afford. Casualties have been high: an estimated 600 Egyptian soldiers were wounded last month. Even more demoralizing are the brutalities of the Saudi-supported Yemeni Royalists, who like to send captured Egyptian soldiers back to their camps with their ears and noses chopped off. For all its sacrifices in Yemen, Egypt still controls less than half of the country...
...Yemeni tribesmen in the small and remote village of Haradh last week lopped off the heads of two oxen as sacrifices for peace. Yet the 55 delegates gathered for truce talks on a nearby plain seemed no closer to settling Yemen's three-year civil war than they were when they first convened three weeks ago. Reported an Arab newsman: "It is the dialogue of the deaf. Both sides talk, but neither side listens...
...Home Front. It was startling talk and clearly followed the line toward moderation taken by Egypt's Nasser in recent months. Nasser eschews talk of war, whether against Israel or the Yemeni royalists. At the Arab summit in Casablanca last September, he counseled fellow delegates to concentrate on setting their own houses in order, and showed the way by replacing left-leaning Premier Ali Sabry's government with a new, efficiency-minded one headed by Zakaria Mohieddin...