Word: aden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the orthodox P.D.R.Y. is embracing a modest version of perestroika. By local standards the reforms are radical: encouraging private farms, welcoming Western investment and reorganizing state-run industry. In the capital of Aden, the latest ruling Politburo has called the country's Central Committee into session to adopt such bold measures as more funding for private and cooperative farms and better pay to spur greater productivity among state farm workers...
...generation have such moderate noises emanated from Aden. For ten years South Yemen has topped the State Department's list of countries that support terrorism. Aden kept an open door to leftist revolutionaries, including terrorists such as Japan's Red Army and West Germany's Baader- Meinhof Gang, who were supported with camps and special training...
...rapidly spreading civil war, the British and Soviet governments were participating in a joint rescue operation that in a modest way resembled the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk during World War II. As savage fighting between Marxist factions spread throughout the desert country, about 5,000 foreigners were transported from Aden, at the southern approach to the Red Sea, to the former French colony of Djibouti, 150 miles away...
...visit there next month, but was quickly recruited for the rescue operation. Other British naval vessels, including the frigate Jupiter, were not allowed by the South Yemenis to sail within the twelve-mile territorial limit, but the Britannia, as a hospital ship, was permitted to enter the port of Aden. Britons and non-Britons alike were stirred when the Queen's yacht, its Royal Marine band playing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia, reached Djibouti with the first load of 350 evacuees of 42 nationalities, including mainland Chinese. In the course of the week, the Britannia evacuated...
Among those escaping were Robert McSeveney, 29, of Los Angeles, and Claude Brideau, 33, of British Columbia, who had arrived in Aden the night before the trouble started. They were crew members of the 44-ft. yacht Wathara IV, whose Australian owner, Bruce Cameron, 65, had stopped to take on water and food after 15 days at sea. On shore, they watched as artillery began to fire from the hills, MiGs appeared in the sky and shells suddenly were landing everywhere. "The concussions sucked the air from our lungs," McSeveney said later. "We thought we were going to die." After...