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IUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, AprU 28, 1963 Pag IA UAR Supports One Side, Saudi Arabia, the Other War Between Yemenis, Egyptians Has Few Rules By RICHARD AXDEREGG ui in Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon It has been a dirty war, the one in Yemen. This correspondent is back from observing it on both sides the republican forces supported by the United Arab Republic and the royalist side supported Saudi Arabia. These backers of the opposing fac tions have agreed tentatively on a disengagement, but fighting is still going on. Yemenis are chain smokers from about age 7. They read ily picked up the cigarettes air-dropped by the Egyptians. The smokes exploded when lit, ripping apart mouths and faces. Fleeing Egyptians left be hind booby-trapped ammuni tion. Abandoned boots at tractive loot for the barefoot Yemenis were stuffed with grenades. The Yemeni fighters have no use for rulebooks of the niceties of war, either. They -refused to bury the Egyptian dead. Half-uniformed bodies littered the landscape. One mummified Egyptian body lay beside the trail, its uniform bleached by the sun. The soldier had been shot point-blank in the back. The Yemenis- say many of the Egyptians were running away when they were gunned down, and in the eyes of the skinny, kilted tribesmen, a man run ning away is just another animal to shoot. One royalist command post was deep in a gorge beneath an overhanging cliff. With rifles propped against am munition cases and grenades Indonesia Looking t o In Determination i P By ROBERT EUNSON Of tht AssocUted Frets JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia isn't as close to going over to the Communists as many people abroad have been led to believe. This is a general opinion among foreigners living in Ja karta today. "The army won't let it happen," a seasoned observer said. "There aren't enough commies," an expatriated American proclaimed. "What President Sukarno needs is a business manager," aid an American representative of a major oil company. "We're staying with the belief that eventually he will work things out." On the green sweep of lawn behind the presidential resi dence at Bogor, for 200 years the residence of Holland's gover nors general, is a statue depicting a hand holding a bronze figure which supposedly is one of this tropical nation's 80 mil lion souls. "The hand of God," is the name of the statue. You can't help feeling that the sculptor of Sukarno's favorite statue prob ably was right What happens to Indonesia seems in the hands of providence, because there is such a lack of determination within. While Sukarno was host to the president of China this month, a battalion of Indonesian infantry goose-stepped past the reviewing stands. The Chinese were inclined to show considerable distaste for Americans during their trip to Indonesia. But Sukarno and his staff at Bogor palace acted more like Gov. Pat Brown of Cali fornia and his attaches at a convention. "I hope the president of China doesn't see that helicopter parked on the lawn," cracked an Indonesian officer who shall be nameless. "It was given to our president by President Ken nedy for Christmas." They say Sukarno got angry at a remark made in the U.S. Senate concerning the Yuletide gift. He refused to accept it, but eventually cooled off and commutes in it regularly between Bogor and Jakarta. So you think perhaps this man who has become something of an enigma is playing both the Communists and the U.S.A. for what he can get. - -- - r. , - . .-. -" :. Then you ask why he isn't doing more for his own country. Sumatra, Java, Bali, those far-away places with the ro mantic names, are rich in natural resources which have been poorly developed since the Dutch left. Although crude oil is still Indonesia's major money maker, government controls have kept the big companies from making new investments. Malaya is already ahead of Indonesia in rubber production, i situation that would have been unheard of when those orderly Dutch minds were here. "But the Dutch took out everything and put nothing back," the Communists shout. "Look to Marxism for the true way of life." The 800-room Hotel Indonesia, built for the housing and care of rich tourists, doesn't indicate Sukarno is looking to Marxism. Smartly uniformed waiters serve chilled champagne, Ameri can hamburgers or double sirloin steaks in your air-conditioned room. Outside an old lady walks by balancing a basket on her head. A worker wearily staggers across the street carrying a basket of mud for a wall he is building. An American movie is playing at the theater tonight. Across the street from it a sign advertises: "Aeroflot, di rect flights to Moscow." That's about it. The fate of Indonesia truly is in the hands of the Gods. 0 I g heaped beside bundles of food, a cluster of turbaned men was smoking and sipping tea. A case marked "Small Arms Ammunition, lot WRA 23373" bore a red. white and blue U.S. aid sticker. "We took it from the Egyp tians," said a Yemeni fighter. A tribesman put down his tea glass, extracted from his sarong a grenade that he had taken from an Egyptian, and wandered off to see how it worked. He rolled it into a hole, covered his ears and smiled when it exploded. A few seconds later, the group leaped to its feet in a clatter of tea cups. An Egyptian mortar shell had roared in and blown up 40 yards away from the ammuni- ' tion boxes. The Egyptians had heard the first blast, and answered it. "That was the closest ever," shrugged a sheik, "but I don't suppose they can hit the am munition under this cliff." He sat down and drank an other tiny cup of bitter, scented tea. The Yemenis fire at birds or bushes, just to hear the noise, and Egyptian machine guns spray back deadly streams, to the delight of the tribesmen. Going to and from the front, the Yemenis link arms, dance and sing little ditties. When they see friends, they Khrushchev Gets Word On Term ROME Ml There are East and West, and then there's the "third world." The term is well known in Italy, but Nikita Khrushchev confessed last weekend that it mystified him. Italo Pietra, of the Milan newspaper II Giorno, who in terviewed Khrushchev, asked how the Soviet debate on art had affected "feelings of the leftist intellectuals of the West and the third world." Khrushchev said he found support for the Soviet view point, but confided: "It is not fully clear what you mean by 'third world.' " This, then, is today's cul tural tip: Third world (il teno mon do) is the Italian way of say ing third force. It is used to designate neutral or non aligned nations as a whole. The recollection here is that it came into use about the time of the Bandung Confer ence of Asian-African nations in 1955. CARL GUSTAF Sweden's Croirn Pnnct little Prince' 17 Tuesday STOCKHOLM lP Old ladies fondly call him the Little Prince. To his school pals he is known as Tjabo. Everyone seems to like Carl Gustaf Koike Hubertus. crown prince of Sweden who becomes 17 years old Tuesday. Sweden's next king is shy although he tries hard not to show it. The "Little Prince" label embarrass es him and he Is irked by stares of the curious. Carl Gustaf became crown Formosa Race Full of Inhibitions j u,l4 TAIPEI, Formosa A campaign full of inhibitions ended today. Candidates for the Formosa Provincial Assembly were un der instructions to say noth ing that might harm the in terests of the government. They could not criticize the anti-Communist policy of tne Chiang Kai-shek regime, which has announced its In tention to recover mainland China. throne. The boys father was killed in a plane accident in 1947. An upperclassman at the Humanistic College outside Stockholm. Carl Gustaf speaks F.ngli.'h well and German passa bly. He is also beginning to learn French. The crown prince will cele brate his birthday quietly in the palice with family and c!nt friend". H hopes to jet half a diy off from school Nikita's New Interview Style Dull By PRESTON GROVER Of th Associated Press MOSCOW Premier Khru. shchev's new technique for interviews threatens to end the easy . and sometimes ". stormy give and take of earli er days. The new system, if it truly is a new system, was tried out last weekend on Italo Pietra, editor of II Giorno of Milan. It resulted in an in terview lacking much of the Khrushchev zest even though packed with statements of So viet positions on Berlin, Chi na, abstract artists, and a host of other things. It was a safe, studied reply. Pietra got his answers in , writing. It was unlike several previ ous interviews. Others, such as Turner Catledge, Walter Lippmann and more recently Roy Thomson, went to see Khrushchev and the exchanges began then. Catledge, manag ing editor of the New York Times, spent nearly two hours with Khrushchev in 1957 and reported that he answered most questions in an appar ently free and easy manner. With Thomson there was one pretty sharp moment when the Canadian-born pub lisher told Khrushchev he would do better to side with the West than to count on China. He made a gesture of throat cutting, to indicate what Khrushchev might ex pect from China. The premier, boiling back with a reply, told Thomson not to count on China and Russia ever split ting up for the West's bene fit. Lippman spent a day with Khrushchev two years ago at the Premier's Dacha on the Black Sea. Once Khrushchev seemed irritated by a comment. He had insisted that France was in a position to test nuclear weapons for the United States even if Russia and the United States banned tests. China would do the same for Russia, observed Lipp mann. Khrushchev braced for a sharp reply, but controlled himself, and observed that this was fair comment. The Milan editor asked through the Soviet embassy in Rome for an interview. He was told to write out ques tions. He submitted 12 questions April 4. The interview was set for 16 days later. He came to Moscow and was taken to the foreign office where he was handed a 32-page docu ment containing questions and answers, both in Italian and Russian. Pietra had time to study nswers before the Inter view that afternoon. But the Soviet press director, Leonid Zamyatin, asked him not to try to get Khrushchev to broaden any answer. The new way of handling interviews promises to dimin ish the approach to the top Russian source of news. If questions must be submitted in writing, wiih no chance to follow up with further ques tions, interviews are spt to bo duU. fire volleys of joy shots into the air. When they see strangers especially men in trousers, which no Yemeni wears they shoot to kill. One Yemeni almost killed a Western correspondent with a shot past his ear. He emerged from behind a hillock, grin ning. He wore a brilliant green turban, a kilt the rich blue color of a peacock, had a foot-long gambia dagger in his belt and a submachine gun in his hand. His little daughter trotted beside him, shouting: "An Egyptian, kill him. kill him." The Royalists support the imam (king) who was over thrown by Abdullah Al-Sallal, the field marshal who con trols the republican regime with Egyptian backing. Gamut Abdel Nasser sent in several thousand Egyptians in the ap parent belief that he was backing a popular revolution. It soon developed that the Egyptians were doing most of the fighting. Despite or be cause of their primitive meth ods, the forces loyal to Imam Mohammed Al-Badr have been able to make headway. Camel-borne troops will at tack an Egyptian tank with out hesitation. Carrying only rifles, they scurry behind the armored monster, jam their turbans into the exhaust pipes and clamber aboard while the tank's gun wags frantically back and forth. ,1 i V.i(!,! , ' , ' (AP Wlrtphots) . Iman Mohammed El Badr, foreground, second from left, the bearded YplTiPni kine oi Ycmen fingers a rifle and is equipped with a bandolier of a dliviil cartridges as he stands with some of his followers at their mountain If headquarters in the remote Arabian country. They have been fight- rvlllg ing an Egyptian army and Yemeni republican soldiers who drove 14 1 . E I 'i i lii It Now Gifts for everyone with' GIFT SEALS' under all Pepsi and Teem caps ! Now enjoy light, bracing Pepsi and crystal-clear, lemon-lime Teem. ..and get great gifts, too! For all Pepsi and Teem caps now have a "Gift' Seal" on the underside...take off the cap, take off the seal, and you're on the way to saving for the gift of your choice! 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