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Qahtan al-Shaabi
Qahtan al-Shaabi was a leader of the National Liberation Front who became the first president of South Yemen when Britain withdrew from Aden on 30 November 1967. He abolished the sultanates of the former Aden Protectorate, but in June 1969 the party's left wing removed him, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
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