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Article: Obituary: Abdullah Sallal
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1994
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Abdullah Sallal, soldier, politician: born 1916; Governor of
Hodeidah 1959- 62; President of the Revolutionary Council,
Commander-in-Chief of the Republican Forces, and Prime Minister of
Yemen 1962-67, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1963-64; died Sanaa,
Yemen 12 March 1994.
IN SEPTEMBER 1962 a group of young officers with Egyptian
support overthrew the thousand-year- old Imamate of Yemen and,
modelling themselves on Egypt, sought a senior army officer to
serve as a figurehead, as General Mohammad Neguib had done for
Colonel Nasser. Abdullah Sallal was reputedly their second choice
but none the less became the first President of the Yemen Arab
Republic and Prime Minister, promoted himself Field ...