Word: aden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British military commitments east of Suez. Arguing that "a military presence has more than once proved an obstacle," Powell said that in the long run the quelling of Communist expansionism in Asia and Africa was not Britain's business. Besides, maintenance of military bases and forces from Aden to Hong Kong was too heavy a drain on British resources...
...Empire? Perhaps, but Powell's thinking reflected a growing sense of realism on the Tories' part, as well as another step in Heath's determined plan to bring Britain closer to Europe and win membership in the Common Market. Closing down such major British bases as Aden and Singapore, substituting a cheaper defense line based on small, stepping-stone islands in the Indian Ocean would produce a considerable saving in Britain's annual $6 billion defense budget. The U.S. Navy is currently studying the possibility of erecting a joint base in the Seychelles Islands to that...
...schools were shut down when students tried to demonstrate, and newspapers were forbidden to "carry news that might incite people." British troops patrolled the streets, exchanging occasional fire with snipers on the rooftops. For good measure, the carrier Eagle and the frigate Lowestoft steamed meaningfully into the Gulf of Aden...
...Chief Minister Mackawee, declaring that Britain "has gone mad and lost all her sense of proportion," flew to Cairo for consultations with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear...
...Britain wants to link Aden itself with 16 semifeudal and poverty-stricken sheikdoms, sultanates and emirates that form the Aden Protectorate along the South Arabian coast. Mackawee will have none of the proposed federation, possibly because (as the British explain) he is afraid of the terrorists-or possibly because he doesn't fancy being outvoted by 16 sheiks...