EGYPT UP THE REBELS IT WAS VICTORY DAY IN PORT SAID, SIX 
YEARS EXACTLY SINCE THE LAST BRITISH SOLDIER LEFT SUEZ . THERE 
TO CELEBRATE THE OCCASION WAS EGYPT'S PRESIDENT GAMAL ABDEL NASSER . 
AS 20,000 EGYPTIANS CHEERED, NASSER CALLED THE BRITISH FROM QUEEN TO 
COMMONOR " SONS OF BITCHES, " SNEERED AT HIS CRITICS, AND 
RIDICULED AS A PAIR OF " NUTS " JORDAN'S KING HUSSEIN 
AND SAUDI ARABIA'S KING SAUD BECAUSE THEY OPPOSE EGYPT'S MILITARY VENTURE 
IN YEMEN, WHERE NASSER SUPPORTS THE REBEL ABDULLAH SALLAL . " 
BROTHERS ! " CRIED NASSER . " THIS IS NOT THE 
YEMENI PEOPLE'S BATTLE . IT IS OUR BATTLE, BECAUSE THE MORE 
PEOPLE WE CAN WIN OVER FROM IMPERIALISM AND REACTION, THE MORE 
OUR POWER IS INCREASED . REVOLUTION WILL SOON TRIUMPH EVERYWHERE AGAINST 
REACTION ! " NASSER PROMISED THAT ISRAEL'S TURN WOULD COME AS 
SOON AS " WE GET RID OF SAUD AND HUSSEIN, WHO 
CONSPIRE WITH ZIONISM AND IMPERIALISM TO PRESERVE THEIR OWN THRONES AND 
FORTUNES . NASSER PROUDLY WATCHED A PARADE OF EGYPTIAN MIGHT 60 
NEW SOVIET-BUILT 5-54 TANKS, ANTIAIRCRAFT DETACHMENTS, BATTERIES OF TACTICAL ROCKETS, AND 
DISMISSED REPORTS THAT MORE THAN 10,000 EGYPTIANS HAD BEEN LOST IN 
THE YEMEN CAMPAIGN, INSISTED THAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF EGYPTIAN DEAD 
WAS ONLY 136 . WASHINGTON WAS WRONG IF IT THOUGHT THAT 
NASSER WOULD WITHDRAW EGYPTIAN FORCES AND LEAVE THE AREA IN PEACE 
IN EXCHANGE FOR U.S . DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION OF YEMEN'S REVOLUTIONARY REGIME 
. INSTEAD, NASSER MADE IT CLEAR AT PORT SAID THAT HE 
PLANS TO STAY IN YEMEN, THE BETTER TO EXPORT REVOLUTION INTO 
THE BRITISH-PROTECTED STATES RANGING FROM KUWAIT IN THE NORTH OF THE 
ARABIAN PENINSULA TO ADEN IN THE SOUTH AS WELL AS TO 
SYRIA, JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA . 