Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YEMEN In the Old Style
...When the old Imam Ahmad ("Ahmad the Devil") ruled Yemen, justice was swift-and final. Enemies were decapitated and their heads carried around town on long poles. Lesser offenders lost their hands or feet. Last week General Abdullah Sallal, leader of the Egyptian-backed regime that overthrew the Ahmad dynasty in 1962, borrowed a leaf from Ahmad's book of horrors. In little more time than it took to cock a rifle, he staged a drumhead trial for seven of his former colleagues, including an ex-Cabinet Minister, then sent them swiftly to their deaths before a firing squad...
...Sproul of the University of California, Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa and others, he organized and led a mammoth archaeological expedition from Cairo to the Cape. He established his own grandly named American Foundation for the Study of Man and led further expeditions into Sinai, Aden and Yemen...
Qataban and Sheba, was praised by 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...
...Will. After the Yemen fiasco, Phillips took refuge in Oman in 1952 and became a good friend of Sultan Said bin Taimur. He went into the oil business one day when the Sultan, after complaining that he had not found oil like other Middle Eastern rulers, said to Phillips, "And by the will of God we shall have oil, for I am granting you the oil concession for Dhofar." Dhofar, an area the size of Ohio, has not yet produced any oil. But it made Phillips a millionaire, because he divided his 21% interest in the concession into...