Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 19 months, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser has lavished ill-spared funds and fighting men on the backward, arid republic of Yemen, where a revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...
...vital military base in adjoining Aden he termed "the occupied South." Vowed Egypt's President: "I swear to God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls, and we shall be as victorious as we were in Egypt and Yemen." For good measure, Nasser swore also to "redeem" Israel, which he called a "stooge" of Britain...
Hailed as "the greatest man in the world" by Yemeni President Abdullah Sallal, Nasser inspected "the battlefronts of freedom." However many men he may lose, Nasser pledged, "their reward lies with God." Then he flew back to Cairo, where he was to discuss the Yemen conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, newly installed Regent of Saudi Arabia, Nasser's longtime archfoe. No longer. In a recent interview, Nasser allowed that he was now "very happy" with the Saudi Arabian regime. He will be even happier if the talks with Feisal end in a face-saving solution for the stalemate...
...Canadian and British troops on Cyprus last week were issued U.N. shoulder patches and light blue berets and helmets. Thus the U.N. formally assumed responsibility for keeping the peace, and India's Lieut. General Prem Singh Gyani, a veteran of U.N. operations in the Gaza Strip and Yemen, took over the military command. En route to Cyprus to serve as the U.N. political mediator is Sakari Tuomioja, 52, a blond, heavy-set Finn with a cherubic face, who was nominated by Secretary-General U Thant and accepted by all the interested parties. Most recently...
...peace-keeping force. Already in Cyprus as a U.N. observer, Gyani changed from civilian clothes to a resplendent uniform topped by a blue beret. His record as commander of the U.N. Emergency Force in the Middle East was faultless, and he has also served the U.N. in Yemen. As mediator, U Thant submitted the name of Guatemala's Jose Rolz-Bennett, 45, a lean, capable attorney with a growing reputation as a troubleshooter...