Word: yemeni
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...Recognizing that he may not be his father's child of terror, and responding to genuine pressure from the Yemeni population for an end to feudal tyranny, Prince Badr at once set about winning the Imamate in an unheard-of way: enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed...
...many qat leaves (a common Middle Eastern narcotic), swigging too many flagons of eau de cologne (he likes the stuff), and leaning too heavily on aphrodisiacs. In keeping with Arabian face-keeping, the oil-rich Imam arrived in Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen...
Radical Villages. This ingathering process has brought Israel its worst headaches and heartaches, but at last ten-year-old Israel thinks it has found a few answers. Faced with a babel of tongues, and infinite degrees of sophistication between skilled Rumanian surgeons and ignorant Yemeni shepherds, Israeli officials were in trouble no matter what they did. If they put all Poles in one village and all Moroccan Jews in another, the newcomers failed either to learn Hebrew or to become part of the Israeli pattern; when they were mixed together in one village, there was perpetual conflict...
...Arabia. Claiming sovereignty over the neighboring protectorate, whose borders he has never formally recognized, the Imam has collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved knives, and wearing knee-length skirts of plaid material like kilts. The headquarters of the fighting is a picturesque medieval city called Ibb, with old walls, high towers and beautiful gates...
...life of the nation, has done the decisive educational work. Every army commander is told that he is primarily a teacher, and "only when you go into battle are you a military commander." Today five Jews newly arrived from Iraq, Yemen and Libya sit in Parliament, and the first Yemeni boys have won air force pilots' wings. The doubling of Israel's population in its first six years while retaining the form and spirit of Western democracy is a remarkable achievement of internal stability...