Word: yemenis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heading the advance guard, Von Horn took off for Yemen's capital city of San'a with the objective of 1) ending Saudi Arabian aid to the royalist rebels, 2) creating a 25-mile demilitarized strip along the Saudi-Yemeni frontier, and 3) supervising the phased withdrawal of 28,000 Egyptian troops who have spent the last eight months bloodily propping up the republican regime of President Abdullah Sallal against the royalist mountain tribes fighting to restore deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr to his 1,000-year-old throne...
...Horn's next assignment: to head a new 200-man U.N. peace-keeping force in Yemen, designed to get Egypt and Saudi Arabia out of the Yemeni civil war. No sooner had Secretary-General U Thant announced the project than the Soviet Union called for a Security Council meeting this week, in an evident attempt to bring the Yemeni mission within range of the Russian veto...
...obtaining the settlement, Bunker made three trips to Saudi Arabia and held "extensive talks" with President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo. Giving force to Bunker's arguments was the basic policy decision of the Kennedy Administration to back the pro-Nasser Yemeni republicans against the feudal royalist tribes. This decision was undoubtedly conveyed, tactfully, to Saudi Arabia's Premier Prince Feisal by Bunker. Unquestionably, Nasser was also told that there is a limit to his expansionist drive in the Middle East, and that the U.S. unalterably opposes his stirring up trouble in other Arab countries. Uppermost in Washington...
...into Egypt's sweltering Sinai port of Tor. Aboard were 2,000 Egyptian soldiers, the first big contingent returning from the war in Yemen. Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Ali Amer hailed them as "victorious troops who have achieved a 20th century miracle," to wit: "Snatching the Yemeni people from the pit of poverty, ignorance and disease and leading them toward the path of dignity and development...
...hailed as the man who destroyed Egypt's corrupt past and gave Arabs a new dignity. His picture, with its Pepsodent smile, is found in every corner of the Middle East, from Iraqi bazaars to the huts of royalist Yemeni tribesmen who still cling to Nasser's picture even though they are fighting Nasser's troops...