Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are few roads in Yemen, and last week they were all crowded with Egyptian troop convoys headed for the sea. As he promised at the Arab sum mit at Khartoum in August, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is calling his sol diers home. Five thousand have already left, and another 5,000 are converging on the Red Sea port of Hodeida to await transport. The remaining 10,000 are pulling out of their defensive posi tions in Yemen's bleak highlands, abandoning the Republican-held capital of San'a and the dusty town of Taiz...
Reign of Terror. Sallal has become a desperate man. Neither Nasser's troops nor his own ragged army has been able to break the stalemate in the country's five-year-old civil war; Royalist tribesmen of the Imam Badr still hold half of Yemen, and are in a good position to contest Sallal's army for control of the rest. In his own camp, moreover, Sallal embarked on a reign of terror in which thousands of his for mer supporters have been jailed and dozens more executed. He has become so widely despised that not even...
...however, may not be enough to keep Sallal in power. In Cairo, Nasser announced the release of three Yemeni Republican leaders who had been held prisoner for more than a year at Sallal's behest. Two are former Premiers who turned against Sallal, and the third was Republican Yemen's leading judge. All of them favor peace with the Royalists, and all have both the prestige and popular following necessary to overthrow Sallal. At the same time, the three-nation peace mission announced that a national conciliation conference of both Royalists and Republicans will "definitely be convened soon...
Pitched battles were in progress between the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) for control of two of the federation's 17 states. The N.L.F. already holds twelve, FLOSY two. Only the emirate of Beihan is still unbothered by the rebels. In Aden, the federation's dominant state, not even the presence of 10,000 British troops could prevent street fighting between the two groups...
...BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal-were talking to each other. After agreeing to end their five-year war in Yemen, Nasser unfroze more than $100 million worth of Saudi assets in Egypt, and Feisal denationalized two Egyptian-owned banks that he had taken over earlier this year...