SOUTH ARABIA AND UK: NLF LEADER CLAIMS POWER IN FIRST-EVER PRESS STATEMENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN ARRIVES IN LONDON.
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SOUTH ARABIA AND UK: NLF LEADER CLAIMS POWER IN FIRST-EVER PRESS STATEMENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN ARRIVES IN LONDON.
- Title: SOUTH ARABIA AND UK: NLF LEADER CLAIMS POWER IN FIRST-EVER PRESS STATEMENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN ARRIVES IN LONDON.
- Date: 3rd September 1967
- Summary: 1. GV NLF SUPPORTERS AT CHECKPOINT. 0.03 2. CV NOTICE "TO OVERTHROW THE RULE OF THE PUPPET SULTANS TO CLEAR THE COLONIALISTS IS THE INSTANT AIM DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE". 3. SV BREN GUNNER BY NOTICE BOARD. 0.11 4. SV NLF FORCES STAND GUARD. 0.17 5. SV TRUCK CARRYING ARMED NLF SUPPORTERS GOES PAST. 0.24 6. CV BANNER NLF SLOGAN 0.27 7. SV TRUCK THROUGH CHECKPOINT FOLLOWED BY CAR AND MOTORCYCLE ESCORT. 0.40 8. GV CROWD OUTSIDE HOUSE (NAT SOF STARTS) 0.44 9. SCV GUARDS STAND BY 0.48 10. SV CROWD CHANTING 0.57 11. GTV DITTO. 1.02 12. SV ARMY CAPTAIN JOINS IN SHOUTING 1.05 13. GTV CROWD. 1.08 14. SV PEOPLE ON ROOF-TOP. 1.12 15. GTV CROWD. 1.20 16. SV INT QAHTAN ASHAABI INTERVIEWED (ARABIC SOF) (3 SHOTS) 1.32 17. CV ASHAABI SPEAKING 1.40 18. SV DITTO. 1.45 19. SV AIRCRAFT TAXIES 1.48 20. SV SIR HUMPHREY TREVELYAN OFF AIRCRAFT. 2.00 21. CU SIR HUMPHREY. 2.08 Initials PW/V/AS-JF/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 18th September 1967 13:00
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- Location: ZINGIBAR SOUTH ARABIA AND LONDON, U.K.
- City:
- Country: England United Kingdom Yemen
- Reuters ID: LVA1WJ3G1CQF74KWKOW1O15M533C
- Story Text: IN HIS FIRST-EVER MEETING WITH WESTERN NEWSMEN, THE LEADER OF SOUTH ARABIA'S NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT ORGANISATION, QAHTAN ASHAABI SAID YESTERDAY THAT THE NLF WAS THE ONLY TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH ARABIA. HE DEMANDED THAT THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES SHOULD HAND OVER POWER TO THE NLF AND NOT TO THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
MANY OF THE GOVERNMENT LEADERS ARE AT PRESENT OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND, IN THE STATE OF UNCERTAINTY PREVAILING IN SOUTH ARABIA, THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER, SIR HUMPHREY TREVELYAN FLEW BACK TODAY TO LONDON FUR URGENT CONSULATIONS WITH BRITISH GOVERNMENT LEADERS.
THE STATE OF AFFAIRS SURROUNDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH ARABIA, PROMPTED THE FEDERAL MINISTER OF INFORMATION, MR. HUSSEIN ALI BAYOOMI TO DECLARE YESTERDAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS "FINISHED".
HE SAID IT WAS UP TO THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES TO REACH AN UNDERSTANDING WITH NATIONALISTS CONTROLLING FEDERAL STATES AND FOR THE NATIONALISTS TO TAKE UP THE REINS OF OFFICE.
EARLIER, THE NLF LEADER QAHTAN ASHAABI HAD INVITED NEWSMEN AND CAMERAMEN TO THE NLF STRONGHOLD AT ZINGIBAR. THERE, IN A STATEMENT, HE SAID THAT THE NLF NOW CONTROLLED THE WHOLE OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY AND WAS THE ONLY TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOUTH ARABIAN PEOPLE.
BRITAIN, HE SAID, SHOULD HAND OVER CONTROL IMMEDIATELY TO THE NLF. ANY SUGGESTION THAT OPPOSITION TO THE NLF EXISTED IN THE SOUTH WAS FALSE.
IN ZINGIBAR, HUNDREDS OF NLF SUPPORTERS CHANTED SLOGANS AND AMONG THEM WERE OFFICERS OF THE FEDERAL ARMY.
A STRONGHOLD OF NATIONALISM IN SOUTH ARABIA PUTS ON A DISPLAY OF FERVOUR FOR WESTERN NEWSMEN WHO WERE INVITED YESTERDAY TO MEET THE LEADER OF THE NLF QAHTAN ASHAABI. HEAVILY ARMED NATIONALIST GUARDS SWARMED INTO THIS CENTRE AT ZINGIBAR FOR QAHTAN ASHAABI'S FIRST EVER PRESS CONFERENCE.
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