Word: aden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obeying the guerrillas' order, Captain Erwin Zollner landed at Aden in the People's Democratic Republic of South Yemen. There the guerrillas freed women and children and 16 hours later the 118 male passengers. The 14 crew members, however, were held for two days while the airline concluded a ransom agreement...
...Pakistan prepared to see the kind of tank battles I had witnessed during the war over Kashmir in 1965," Correspondent Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi, "but I found this town completely quiet. It made me feel like that correspondent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, who cabled his home office, ADEN UN-WARWISE, while a competitor reported, ADEN WARWISE. The main event that evening was a dinner that President Yahya Khan was giving for the Chinese Communist First Minister of Machine Building...
...Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, the big hole is ordinarily choked with tankers waiting to off-load oil. Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the 78,000-ton tanker Coral Sea had been attacked by a speedboat whose occupants fired ten bazooka shells at the unarmed vessel during a ten-minute pass...
...Britain is rapidly withdrawing its historic military presence from the Far East. The huge naval yard and three airbases in Singapore are being turned over to the local government; the Persian Gulf bases of Bahrain and Sharjah will be closed down well before the end of next year; and Aden has become a port of call for the Russian navy and a barracks for wayward Arab guerrillas...
...Liberation Front was organized twelve years ago as an organization of both Christians and Moslems. Increasingly, however, it has become an Arab socialist front, with headquarters in Damascus; hundreds of Christians, mostly Copts, have deserted the movement in recent months. Many of its members receive training in Aden or even in China; they return by crossing the Red Sea in dhows or by slipping across the 1,000-mile Sudanese border...