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...Royalist regulars and 50,000 armed tribesmen known as "the Fighting Rifles." Well trained (by French mercenaries) and well armed (with recoilless rifles, heavy mortars and bazookas), they quickly surrounded San'a, captured its main airport and severed the Chinese-built highway to the port of Hodeida, which was not only the pride of the Republican regime but a main route for Russian supplies...
...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. By the middle of November, according to Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram...
Lethal Vapor. Anti-Sallal republicans have made three assassination attempts on Sallal in recent months, sabotaged the Soviet-built port of Hodeida, and frequently cut the main roads linking the cities. They have gunned down dozens of Egyptians from ambush and blown their Jeeps to bits with mines. So strong is the anti-Egyptian feeling that emissaries sent with bundles of cash to buy the loyalty of dissident chieftains have been murdered and the money returned-the latter a most unusual occurrence in the Middle East...
...Jizan, ruptured the Saudi segment of the Trans-Arabian pipeline near the Iraqi border. Grenades were lobbed in the British protectorate of Aden in a grim continuation of the violence that has killed 72 people in the past two years. Bombs went off in the Yemen port city of Hodeida, and there were explosions in both Cairo and Damascus...
...YEMEN was ruled by leftist, Nasser-leaning Crown Prince Mohammed al Badr when the Russians first moved in to build a $15 million Red Sea port at Hodeida in the feudal land. When Al Badr turned conservative in 1962 under Republican attack, the Soviets reversed themselves to back the opposition headed by Abdullah Sallal, built him an airport and 150 low-cost houses, promised $72 million more in various projects. None have even been begun, since Moscow is plainly worried that it may have switched to the wrong horse in midstream. All told, Moscow has offered $142 million...