Word: yemenis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood among the Arab countries has sent scores of defectors criss crossing in the air lanes. Sallal's charge d'affaires at the Yemeni embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
...states are being called to line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard cash to his allies. In addition to helping the Yemeni royalists, he is supporting Jordan's King Hussein with millions of dollars for everything from road building to weapons. He is also strengthening Saudi Arabia's own defenses with purchases of some $1.5 billion in military hardware in case a fight with Nasser should ever be necessary...
...scholars. But the U.S. State Department got annoyed when Phillips started dabbling in sensitive Mid-East politics. Scholars on his own expedition com plained that he was more interested in angles than in artifacts. And the Yemen trek ended abruptly when Phillips fled the country, fearing assassination by uncontrolled Yemeni soldiers...
...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...