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...1950s, rising Arab nationalism led to frequent border raids by Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Yemenites indignantly claim the entire Aden region as South Yemen. In response, Britain decided to band the protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...
...years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem he had once written about Arab socialism...
...deeply committed antiCommunist, has privately often chided the U.S. for lavishing more attention and money on vacillating neutrals than on such strong supporters as his own Pakistan. A devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian Arab beauty, who is now at a finishing school in London. As he took the presidential chair last week, Zafrulla recognized the strains of his post. "0 Allah," he prayed aloud in Arabic, "expand my chest. Make my task easy. Grant me eloquence so that they may understand...
Syria's most horrendous charge, at least to Arab ears, was that Egypt had toned down its anti-Israel campaign in order to keep some $250 million yearly in aid coming in from the United States. (The State Department flatly denies that it has imposed any such conditions.) As for Syria's complaints of Nasserite subversion...
League officials said that a decision would have to wait until Egypt returned to the conference-which was indefinitely adjourned. But Nasser hinted that Egypt might quit the 17-year-old Arab League and start a new socialist unity club representing Arab people rather than Arab governments. It could hardly be more ineffectual...