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Half-Measures. Such terms, hardly calculated to bring the Arabs rushing to the conference table, came just when both Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein were trying to work out a formula for negotiations through a U.N. mediator. Both rulers had made known their willingness, if not to sign a formal peace treaty, at least to end their 20-year "state of hostilities" with Israel. But the Israelis are in no mood to accept such half-measures. They are now convinced that it is much wiser to hold on to what they have than...
...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...
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...
...Arab world for its espousal of U.S. views: "If the Vietnamese guerrillas could contain the American Army, China would not hesitate to unleash its masses on South Viet Nam, Asia and even Russia." Later, Bourguiba described his fellow Arabs' belligerence against Israel as "vain obstinacy" and Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the Gulf of Aqaba as "a monumental miscalculation." He has also shocked Moslems by recommending birth control and the end of the Ramadan fast. In fact, Bourguiba habitually does something that is exceedingly rare in his part of the world: he talks straight...
...infallible, either as a military strategist or as a national hero. Israel still occupies Sinai, and they want to know why. If it were not for the prospect of aid from oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt's economy would be bankrupt. All in all, times are tough for Gamal Abdel Nasser, who promised his country glory but gave it only gore...