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6 B SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1!H3 MEDFOKD MAIL TKIBLNE. MEDKOKD. OKEGOX Yemen Military Situation Reaches Stalemate (Editor's Note: The war in Yemen that began with a coup in September, 1982, sending the ruling Imam fleeing his capital of Sanaa to assemble a loyal army and drawing Egyptian military help for the rebels has just gone into its second year. Here is an up to date report from the scene.) By DAVID BISHAI United Press International SAADA, NORTHERN YEMEN (UPI) The military situation in Yemen has reached a stale mate that only a political solu tion can end. According to authoritative mil itary observers, fighting has been reduced to decreasing skir mishes in the northwestern mountain range separating Ye men from Saudi Arabia. There, tribes opposing the Republican regime are entrenched. t.gyp' tian troops have set up a tight ring all around to keep them from invading the plains. Neither side seems any longer anxious to do battle with the other. The anti-Republicans are apparently secure in their im pregnable mountain abode, go ing about their traditional ter race cultivation. Kept on Alert Occasionally, sometimes ap parently just to satisfy their warring nature, they set up am bushes, or simply open fire at objects at random. It no longer does great harm, but is suffic ient to keep the Egyptians and Republicans on the alert. Those anti-Republican tribes are not Royalists. Many of them are by tradition opposed to who ever rules Sanaa. The Turks who occupied Yemen lass than a The Collector's Corner Before we said "Good Day" to J. Edward Day as postmaster general, he announced the fol lowing stamp: 5 cent memorial for Eleanor Roosevelt, city mail delivery, Sam Houston, Cordell Hull, John Muir, John James Audubon, and the 1063 Christ mas stamp. None of these were given a date of issue by Mr. Day before he left office. Our Food for Freedom stamp has topped all records for can cellations of first day of issue with 696,185 covers postmarked June 4. Hungary has issued a large diamond shaped stamp. This is a pretty stamp. I have received a letter franked with Ihe attractive golf stamp from Cape Verde. What I find most Interesting concerning cover collecting is mailing the envelopes myself for first day of issue or other cachets. This way I know that every cover in my collection has passed through the national or international mail, and has not been made strictly to order for selling to collectors. Cultivate a pen-friend in all countries, then you know your covers and en velopes are bona fide. There will be six new stamps issued in Oc tober. This keeps cover collect ors that service their own busy. Our second Christmas stamp will be issued Nov. 1. The Harris Freedom album picturing the United States and the United Nations stamps has historical information for the be ginner and also the advanced collector. This is a fine book for $1.50. An interesting collection tor the do-it-yourself collector can be made with little cost, much work and historical research concerning battlefields, dates and named towns, post office cancellations for Civil War events. Over 40 events took place and all can be had with special slogans, stamps and ca chets. Such a collection from Nov. 7, 1061 to the end of 11)85 makes a real historical record of those troubled times. Malaysia has issued the most beautiful flower stamps in honor of the World Orchid conference held in Singapore Oct. 3 to 12. Another fine stamp "catalog" book that any stamp collector can afford to own is the new 10th Birthday for Minkus "American" catalog book priced at $3 at any stamp or book shop. Attend our stamp club meet ings the first Thursday of each month, 7:30 p.m., Girls Com munity club on Bartlctt. Every one is welcome. Mrs. W. H. Walwyn Southern Oregon Philatelic Society Medford century ago, and the Imans who followed, were never able to suppress them. They are pint-sized but tough and ruthless. Their loyalty is to their tribe alone. Their women are unveiled, wear black velvet slacks and carry slingshots which they skillfully use to hunt mountain rats and rabbits or to gouge the eyes of an attacker. Both men and women roam their rugged land with animal agility. Mountains Are Infested The northern mountains are infested with small bands of these little warriors. They shoot at any one who is not their kin. Their captured enemies are be headed by one swift stroke of their Saracen daggers. And they are equally skilled with a rifle. The Egyptians and Republi cans are quite satisfied now to keep them marooned in their mountain domain. They have apparently realized it was im possible, and futile, to try to flush them out. To them, it is not worth the lives of men such a battle would cost. The Royalist tribes supporting Iman El Badr have found sanc tuary in those mountains. But they are often disturbed by fre quent raids by Egyptian Yak fighters. They are trying to rally more followers by buying the support of uncommitted moun tain tribes, after most of their manpower was lost in the battles of the plains. Strategic Mistake The Royalists committed their worst strategic mistake by chal lenging the Egyptians in the open. When El-Badr escaped from Sanaa at the end of Sep tember, 1962, following the coup d'etat of Abdullah Al Sallal, he rallied an army of almost 40,000 men, with the assistance of Saudi Arabia and the Sherif (rul er) of Beijan. They greatly outnumbered the Egyptians and Republicans. They sought to crush them and regain control. 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Their number had been greatly reduced, but there were aid and supplies from Saudi Arabia and Beijan. Last June 9, they tried another march on Sanaa, with about 10,000 war riors, and suffered the same fate as in their earlier attempt. Then the Egyptians launched their summer offensive and sealed off all Yemen's borders except for the impassable north western mountain range. Mopping - up operations fol lowed, largely by bombers and mortars against trapped Royal ist pockets. The f'JUing gradu ally receded until .t reached a stalemate. The long, difficult and thorny search for a political solution ac ceptable to all has begun, so far with nothing very promising in sight. It is easier to realize in Southern Yemen, where tribes are mainly Shafei Moslems an agrarian, largely peaceful peo ple whose proximity to Aden has afforded them a certain degree of education and reason. But ' up north are the Zaidis the tough mountain nomads, who have little or no education and who have managed to keep : themselves sealed off from the i rest of the world. 1 Discontent Prevails i President Sallal is a Zaidi, but that did not serve to bring all : Zadis in line. The executive council and other top positions! are carefully divided among Zai dis and Shafeis, with the Zaidis favored. And discontent prevails among the tribes. j If there is a way of bringing all Yemenis under one flag and one central government, that way is yet to be found. The stench of death and gun powder is gradually receding from the mountains of Yemen. The rebel tribes are farming and Egyptian troops are largely em ployed on road construction, building schools and hospitals. But an occasional outburst of machine-gun fire, the sudden roar of a low-flying Yak fighter : or the glimpse of a wounded man on a stretcher are remind-1 ers that the gun still rules over Yemen. Wanted 3 Killers! 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