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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
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be six new stamps issued in Oc
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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
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Southern Oregon
Philatelic Society
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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. Early in the year
they descended from the moun
tains to attack Sanaa, Taez and
Hodeida and were thoroughly de
feated. They stood on the plains, un
shielded and unprotected under
the pounding of Egyptian tanks,
field rockets, flame-throwers and
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air bombing and strafing. The
entire thing was over in less
than a week.
Start Conducting Raids
The shattered Royalists re
gained the mountains and be
gan conducting harassing raids
from there. 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.
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