Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little civil war in Yemen last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...
...Egypt John Badeau last week brought the major foes face to face. In Badeau's presence at Cairo, Saudi Arabia's U.N. specialist, Ahmad Shukairy, held a long, secret conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. The purpose of the discussions: an armistice in Yemen...
...East is to encourage stability, and American standing in this area is now very strong. Today America is listened to in Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Riyadh and San'a-everywhere. We hope the American efforts will be continued and their main goal reached: an end to the bloodshed in Yemen. Once this is achieved, a general peace may be possible...
Nasser proudly watched a parade of Egyptian might-60 new Soviet-built T-54 tanks, antiaircraft detachments, batteries of tactical rockets, and dismissed reports that more than 10,000 Egyptians had been lost in the Yemen campaign, insisted that the actual number of Egyptian dead was only...
Washington was wrong if it thought that Nasser would withdraw Egyptian forces and leave the area in peace in exchange for U.S. diplomatic recognition of Yemen's revolutionary regime. Instead, Nasser made it clear at Port Said that he plans to stay in Yemen, the better to export revolution into the British-protected states-ranging from Kuwait in the north of the Arabian peninsula to Aden in the south-as well as to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...