Word: aden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a minimum of grumbling, Britain had accepted a tough austerity budget. Wilson's recent tour of Allied capitals produced surprising warmth and a fresh estimate of Britain's stature. And Wilson is holding the line in Britain's overseas defense system, stretching from Germany to Aden, and in Malaysia, where a beefed-up British expeditionary force of 50,000 men and one-third of the British Navy confront Indonesia's Sukarno...
...West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain his intention to keep Britain's far-flung military establishment intact and in service to the West from Aden to Malaysia...
...that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto Rico. The U.S. was told to get out of Guantanamo, Britain out of Aden, France off Martinique, Israel out of Palestine...
...forces were not really scoring ringing victory after ringing victory, a startling retreat from the extravagant claims he had been making in the past. Nasser also backed down from his pretense that the Yemen war was caused solely by infiltrators from Saudi Arabia and the British colony of Aden. In their official communiqué the two leaders promised to 1) cooperate fully to solve the existing differences between the various factions in Yemen, 2) work together in preventing armed clashes in Yemen, and 3) reach a solution by peaceful agreement...
...Wolves. Nasser claims that the place of the Arab potentates has been filled by the British, long uneasy about Nasser's ambitions in oil-rich Arabia. Indeed, Anthony Boyle, who until last October was aide-de-camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden, recently turned up as an unofficial military adviser in the royalist mountains. Asked in Parliament who authorized Boyle's involvement in Yemen, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home insisted that "both the present High Commissioner and his predecessor have assured my right honorable friend that they were not aware the person...