Word: retrenched
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Italy for medical treatment. While he was away, the heir apparent, Crown Prince Badr, unable to hold the warring Yemeni tribesmen in line, emptied the royal treasury in paying out great sums to keep their allegiance. When the Imam got back last August, he had to retrench. He sent home some 70 Egyptian technicians brought in by his son, stopped the costly flow of rifles to the south. The British Governor of Aden, Sir William Luce, an old adversary of the Imam, astutely decided the time was ripe to pay a visit to the British legation in Yemen...