Word: aden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frontier skirmishing between the two states began several years after South Yemen gained its independence from Britain in 1967. The people of the two Yemens consider themselves to be one nation, but the radically different political views of their governments have made reunion impossible. According to North Yemen, Aden mounted the latest invasion to halt an embarrassing exodus from the south-perhaps 20,000 people since last June. The North Yemenis also charged that the invading forces had killed "large numbers of women and children" in an assault led by Soviet-supplied planes, tanks and artillery. Although claims to captured...
...Yemen conflict as "just another border clash that doesn't mean anything." Said one Saudi official: "This is not a border clash, it is a full-scale war with the potential to spread in all directions and bring catastrophe to the entire gulf." The Saudis believe that Aden wants to unify the two Yemens by force and fear that after the collapse of American influence in Iran, Washington may not respond strongly enough to Communist subversion in the Arabian Peninsula. The Saudis are also worried about renewed South Yemeni backing of Marxist insurgents in the Dhofar region of Oman...
...another reason why I wish the meeting to succeed. And that is the international prestige of the President of the United States. We in Israel are an integral part of the free world, and the free world is under constant onslaught. You can see what is happening around us. Aden, Southern Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique-all these countries were actually taken over by the Soviet Union. There is a plan in Moscow to take over country after country, usually by proxy...
Robaye Ali and Ismail had bitterly differed on recent policy issues. Ismail opposed unification unless the North turned Marxist. He also approved the strong influence of Moscow and Havana on South Yemen. Robaye Ali wanted to keep Aden's diplomatic options more open; seeking better relations with the West, he sent "warm greetings" to Jimmy Carter...
...ascendancy of the fanatic Marxist Ismail, who has boasted of defeating all "enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...