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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MliDFOltD, OREGON Hassan El Amry Runs War-Torn Yemen, Directs All Business Rv RAVin Dion . ... .... THURSDAY, NOVEMBER M, 1963 By BAVID B1SIIAI United Press International oANAA, Yemen (UPI) The man who runs war-torn Yemen today is its small (5 (eet, two inches), fierce and paradoxical SMALL BUT FIERCE - Brig Hassan El Amry, who is the pocket-sized but fierce vice pres ident of Yemen, is shown here in a 1963 photo (UPI) vice president, 48-year-old Brig adier Hassan El Amry. El Amry is hard to miss in pocket-sized Sanaa where his motorcades are as common as the sand storms. First comes an armored per sonnel carrier loaded with tribal warriors and ammunition for the carrier's 75-mm machine gun. Then comes another with a handful of Egyptian troops toting sub-machine guns. Be hind them comes El Amry, sit ting hawkeyed and oblivious in a dust-laden (Dodge) converti ble sedan. El Amry's motorcade kicks up more dust, and its sirens are noisier, than motorcades trans porting President Abdullah Al Sallal himself. But the wiiy strongman of Republican Ye- men sits back seemingly un aware of the missing crowds and applause. He runs Yemen today almost the same way the overthrown Imamate rule ran it for hun dreds of years. He tells anyone around, "If you know of a bet ter way, show me." He knows that no one can take up the challenge. Long Dedicated When he was a frail, under nourished youth studying wire less communications in Bagh dad, El Amry spent his time talking about pulling Yemen out of the dark ages to anyone who cared to listen, including classmate Abdullah Al Sallal. When they returned to Yemen and got their commissions in the Imam's army, El Amry and Sallal continued their discus sions about making Yemen a better place. This landed Sallal in a dungeon. El Amry, more diplomatic by nature, was merely exiled from Sanaa to a mountain outpost. He was nowhere around when in September, 1962, Sallal and two comrades in arms ran their tanks through the walls of Sanaa to drive Imam El Badr from his throne. But he was shrewd enough to rally his command behind the Republicans, and ac tively support Egyptian troops who came to help keep the Republicans in power. In a few months he became Yemen's vice president and deputy supreme commander of the armed forces. Sallal Has Ulcers President Sallal is too handi capped by duodenal ulcer and other health troubles to person ally look after everything in Ye men. He spent three months of his first year in power under treatment in Cairo, leaving El Amry as acting president. In the few months he has been active vice president, El Amry has taken direction of al most every business in Yemen into his own hands. On the dip lomatic side he avoids clashes with the Egyptians and with Sallal, whose popularity he knows he cannot match. But otherwise he dashes about Sanaa, and all of Republican held Yemen, running everything and ordering everybody around. He deals ruthlessly with ene mies of the republic and regards the most loyal of sheikhs with unconcealed suspicion. At "Qasr El Saada" (Palace of Felicity) in the heart of Sanaa, he keeps the eldest sons of loyal tribal sheikhs as host ages to secure their fathers' continued loyalty. That is ex actly what the Imams did, ex cept they kept their hostages in dungeons while now they live in a palace with good food and entertainment. Behead Royalists Last June, Egyptian intelli gence informed El Amry that a band of royalists had infil trated into Sanaa and planned a sabotage campaign to harass the Republicans. El Amry promptly set out to round them up, along with others suspected of harboring infiltrators. A few days later, nine heads were dis played at the Sanaa gate just the way they were following beheadings ordered by the Imams. When a loyal tribe reneged against the Republican regime last April and cut off the Hode- ida-Sanaa Road, El Amry per sonally led a punitive campaign of Republican troops and crush ed their revolt so severely that even today they fly two Republican flags high over their camp in hopes they will keep El Amry away. He participated in several bat tles against former Imam El Badr's forces during the early days of the revolution, although El Badr is a distant uncle of his. He even rode Egyptian bombers to guide them to their targets. But this all-out aggressive na ture turns into elusiveness when it comes to politics. Playing politics in Yemen is a hazard ous game and El Amry stub bornly avoids it. For the time being he seems satisfied with being Sallal's top executive. He even personally inspects accommodations for visiting dignitaries. He does it with fanfare and pomp. Those close to events in Ye men, though, are wary of El Amry's outward disinterest in politics. 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