Word: aden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonies and "to undertake limited operations in overseas emergencies," Britain will draw in its overseas garrisons to create a mobile, airborne Central Reserve based in Britain and supplemented by a "small number" of naval groups, each comprising one carrier and supporting ships. Bases will be maintained in Aden, Kenya, Singapore and Hong Kong. Medium bombers armed with atomic weapons will be based on Cyprus to meet Britain's obligations to support the Baghdad Pact countries. But British forces in Korea and Jordan will be withdrawn, and those in Libya "progressively reduced...
...criminals or be bombed. Usually the trick worked, and the wanted man would be expelled from the threatened village, pursued through the desert, shot down or captured. On other occasions the population would flee the village, which the R.A.F. would then destroy. A fortnight ago in Britain's Aden Protectorate, which has been under desultory attack by the Imam of Yemen, the old technique was tried again...
...British annexed the adjoining deep-water port of Aden, which lies in the extreme southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, and later staked out a 112,000-sq.-mi protectorate in the area around it. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Aden became (and will be again when the Suez Canal reopens) an important fueling port and naval station on the trade route to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa. The British are determined to keep...
...been produced in the Aden Protectorate, or in Yemen, but Egyptian visitors and Russian technicians (trickling into Yemen in twos and threes, ostensibly to service arms received under the 1956 Yemen-Soviet pact) have told the Imam how oil enriches Saudi Arabia. Claiming sovereignty over the neighboring protectorate, whose borders he has never formally recognized, the Imam has collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved...
...disappointed not to get our current issue on his weekly shopping trip to Dar es Salaam. British commercial travelers, returning from the Far East with a great hunger for the latest news of the Suez crisis, are delighted to find TIME in the bustling Arabian Sea port of Aden. And at Bishoftu, Swedish airmen training Ethiopian air force crews can now read the news of the world in TIME long before hometown newspapers reach them...