Analyzes the complex and delicate negotiations led by Ellsworth Bunker, one of America's most skillful diplomats, which brought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic [Egypt and Syria] to compromise on the issue of intervention in the Yemen Civil War. Examines the complicated situations faced during the Bunker mission to the Middle East in the spring of 1963, and the difficulties that arose in finding common ground between adversaries. Originally published in 1980 by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.