Word: yemenis
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...conflict came at an awkward moment for Saudi Arabia; its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, was receiving his South Yemeni counterpart when the violence broke out. The two men had been arranging a visit to Riyadh by South Yemen's President, Abdel Fattah Ismail, in an attempt to relax regional tensions, ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army...
...Egypt and its chief bankroller Saudi Arabia, which lies at the heart of Washington's hopes for Middle East stability, has reached its lowest ebb since the mid-1960s, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal backed opposing sides in the Yemeni civil war. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who knows both countries well, offers some insights into the cooling friendship...
...Third Avenue is somewhat homogenized now, but abounds with German gourmet shops, Irish bars and Hungarian restaurants. Harlem remains the capital of black America. On its eastern edge is Spanish Harlem, with its large concentration of Puerto Ricans. Down in Brooklyn are Atlantic Avenue's Lebanese and Yemeni specialty shops and inexpensive restaurants...
...prophet of a new kind of Arab nationalism. The two strong-minded leaders clashed directly only once before Nasser's death in 1970. After Yemen's Imam Badr was ousted in a Republican coup, Nasser sent in Egyptian forces to support the new regime. Faisal backed a counterrevolution by Yemeni Royalists. Eventually, Badr renounced his claim to the throne and the Republican regime prevailed ? but Nasser suffered heavy losses, and the cost of the war came close to bankrupting Egypt...
...Beirut with his twelve-year-old son. Sources who have seen him say that he seems subdued and regretful. But the old temper still flashes, and he was about to smash a Beirut photographer's camera at the mountain resort where he is staying when the Yemeni ambassador stepped in and cooled...