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National Geographic : 1964 Mar
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Arabian arms and ammunition, the royalists were holding their own, forcing a costly and uneasy stalemate. The new Yemen Arab Republic was born in September, 1962. Mohammed al-Badr had just succeeded his father, Imam Ahmad, who had died on the 19th. A week later a group 404 of army officers led by chief of staff Brigadier Abdulla al-Sallal commandeered tanks and shelled the royal palace from outside the walls of San'a'. In disguise-some say behind a woman's veil-the young Imam fled to the mountains and Sallal became president. I saw no signs of danger around Ma'rib's abandoned marketplace. Dark windows stared vacantly from towering mud-brick
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