Word: aden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afars, a rival tribe that wants to stay tied to France. Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland. More than tribal loyalty is involved: Ethiopia has a sound economic motive in not wanting its outlet to the Gulf of Aden, a 486-mile narrow-gauge railway from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, to be controlled by the hostile government of Somalia...
Situated in the bowl of an extinct volcano, the Arab quarter of the British colony of Aden is known as the Crater. Last week the Crater erupted with belching smoke from terrorists' grenades and bullets. At least 16 people were killed and 46 injured in disorders provoked by rival nationalist organizations. British troops put down street demonstrations with truncheons and tear gas, while the rioters threw up rock barricades across the dingy alleys to hamper them. At stake was the issue of who should rule Aden's 250,000 people when the British make their scheduled departure some...
Hurled from a Perch. Once a bastion guarding the shipping lanes of the Empire, barren, steamy Aden today has commercial value only as a bunkering port at the entrance to the Red Sea (the colony has oil refineries but no known oil). Last year the British bowed to nationalist demands and announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to a South Arabian federation of Aden and 16 neighboring sheikdoms. The concession only heated up the long-smoldering terrorism. From the fanatical National Liberation Front to the moderate South Arabian League, each nationalist faction tried to outdo the other...
...garrison-despite the pleas of South Arabia's Foreign Minister, Sheik Mohammed Farid, who was in London last week asking for at least a token British force to guarantee the peace. Plainly worried about Nasser's intentions, the U.S. State Department warned against "unprovoked aggression" in Aden. A three-man United Nations team is to arrive later this month to explore ways to smooth Aden's road to independence. But FLOSY's Mackawee for one has already pledged to "redouble the bloodshed" unless the U.N. mission recognizes his organization as the only representative of the people...
...Aden. Now that Yemen's republicans are at each other's throats, Nasser's job will be twice as hard. His reasons for sticking to it range far beyond the barren land of Yemen. In the 1965 armistice signed at Jeddah, Nasser pledged a gradual evacuation of his occupation army. But he apparently abandoned any intention of withdrawing from the area at just about the time the British announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to Yemen's neighbor, South Arabia. For Nasser, South Arabia, with its oil refineries in Aden, would be a prestige...