448:, a main route for Soviet supplies. In a battle twelve miles east of the capital, 3,200 soldiers from both sides were killed, and an entire republican regiment reportedly defected to the royalists. Bin Hussein gave them an ultimatum: "Surrender the city or be annihilated". Iryani went to Cairo for what the Egyptian official press agency called "a medical checkup". Foreign Minister Hassan Macky also left Yemen, leaving the government in charge of Amri. Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew and ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic". In
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said that this claim, as well as reports of twenty-four MiGs and forty Soviet technicians and pilots who had arrived in Yemen, were correct. In
January, the republicans were defending San'a with about 2,000 regulars and tribesmen, plus armed townsmen and about ten tanks. They also had the backing of
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Mohamed bin Hussein told the country's chiefs "We have money, and you will have your share if you join us. If not, we will go on without you". The chiefs agreed to mobilize their tribes. On 28 November 1967, 6,000 royalist regulars and 50,000 armed tribesmen known as "the Fighting Rifles"
390:. The siege would become a critical battle to determine the outcome of the war and the eventual failure of the royalists to retake the city, the Republicans won a de facto tactical victory in the war, retaining the seat of power, and gradually winning international recognition as a legitimate
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dissidents, supported by
Republican tribesmen called down to Sanaa, moved four tanks into the city's dusty squares, took over the Presidential Palace and announced over the government radio station that Sallal had been removed "from all positions of authority". The coup went unopposed. In
483:, said "Better years of talk than a day of fighting". In 1970, Saudi Arabia recognized the Republic, and a ceasefire was effected. The Saudis gave the republic a grant of $ 20 million, which was later repeated intermittently, and Yemeni sheikhs received Saudi stipends.
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675:Dresch (2000), p. 115
388:North Yemen Civil War
298:North Yemen civil war
255:Location within Yemen
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