Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army. But even as N.L.F. President Qahtan al Shaabi-who may become the country's first head of state-prepared to meet the British in Geneva this week to discuss the transfer of power, a rival terrorist group, FLOSY (Front for the Liberation of South Yemen), threatened to contest the N.L.F. takeover with violence...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...support from other Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...
...army immediately turned over power to a Republican Council of three civilians-ex-Premier Ahmed Mohammed Noman, 65, and former Acting Presidents Abdul Rahman Iryani, 67, and Mohammed Ali Othman, 65. All three had recently returned to Yemen after a year of political imprisonment in Cairo, where Nasser had held them at Sallal's behest for demanding peace talks with the Royalists. Speaking for the triumvirate, Iryani made it clear that the new regime intended to get together with the Royalists. He pardoned more than 3,000 political prisoners, called a conference of all major Republican tribes to discuss...
...happened, a somewhat shaky form of government quickly came into being. Meeting in Cairo under the auspices of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the two terrorist groups-the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY)-had been unable to agree for weeks on forming a new government. But when they got wind of Britain's new intentions, they hastily got together. Neither group would say much about the new government, but N.L.F. men, including Leader Qahtan al Shaabi, are almost certain to end up in key positions. Reason: the N.L.F. not only...