Word: yemenis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...position to contest Sallal's army for control of the rest. In his own camp, moreover, Sallal embarked on a reign of terror in which thousands of his for mer supporters have been jailed and dozens more executed. He has become so widely despised that not even the Yemeni Republican army could be trusted with guarding him against assassination. After two bazooka attacks on his home by disaffected soldiers, Sallal installed Egyptian guards...
Even his new Cabinet, however, may not be enough to keep Sallal in power. In Cairo, Nasser announced the release of three Yemeni Republican leaders who had been held prisoner for more than a year at Sallal's behest. Two are former Premiers who turned against Sallal, and the third was Republican Yemen's leading judge. All of them favor peace with the Royalists, and all have both the prestige and popular following necessary to overthrow Sallal. At the same time, the three-nation peace mission announced that a national conciliation conference of both Royalists and Republicans will...
...politicians and administrators, led by Abdul Qawee Mackawee, 48, onetime Chief Minister of Aden, and Abdullah Asnag, 32, former boss of Aden's powerful trades unions. For the past five months, FLOSY has operated a government in exile, complete with a full shadow Cabinet, a capital in the Yemeni city of Taiz, and operating headquarters in Cairo...
...supported tribesmen who want to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad proposed that Egypt and Saudi Arabia revive their Jeddah Agreement of 1965, which calls for formation of a caretaker government, a phased withdrawal of Egyptian forces, and a plebiscite among Yemeni tribesmen to pick a permanent form of government...