Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expedition was costing Nasser heavily in money ($1,000,000 a day) as well as in blood. Only last month, Yemen's self-proclaimed President, Abdullah Sallal, the former commander of the palace guard who turned against the Imam, seemed to have the tiny feudal land firmly under control. Even when Saudi Arabia's Nasser-hating Crown Prince Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein rushed arms, advisers and money to the royalists, they seemed to have little effect...
...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...
Though it is separated from Yemen by 1,000 miles of barren desert, Jordan has a major stake in the seesawing war. "Nasser is out to destroy everything." says King Hussein, 27-and Hussein ought to know: almost from the moment he was proclaimed King in 1952, assassins incited by Nasser propaganda have been gunning for him. In the decade since, Hussein has struggled manfully to develop his little land; today he happily supplies Yemen's royalists with money and munitions to stave off a Nasser victory that might sweep away the fruits of progress in his own country...
Jordan quivers with every political quake from Egypt to Iran. If Nasser gains a foothold in Yemen. Hussein fears his next target will be Saudi Arabia's oil, and if the Saudis go, "I go too." Within his own borders is an enormous potential fifth column - the 600,000 Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief rolls, dispossessed during the Israeli-Arab war and enthralled by Nasser's unfulfilled promises to return them home...
...hero, or villain, of the antispending, anticorruption drive is tall, hawk-nosed Crown Prince Feisal, 57, who was hurriedly called home last October by his brother, King Saud, when revolution in neighboring Yemen threatened Saudi Arabia's feudal regime. "We are discouraging unnecessary luxury and wast," said Prince Feisal last week in his Red Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. "We have stopped playing with money. We are now devoting all our resources to vital and beneficial projects and, thanks to Allah, we have great resources: nearly 50 billion barrels in proven oil reserves and $400 million...