Word: aden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KUWAIT, Feb. 7, 1974 Palestinians take over Japanese embassy, hold ambassador and ten others hostage. Their goal: release of besieged Japanese Red Army and Palestinian commandos who had been holding hostages for a week on a Singapore ferryboat. The hostages are finally freed, and the guerrillas fly to Aden...
...those bases will presumably be the huge Soviet-built naval installation at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which...
...ships. At week's end the U.S. Navy was tracking 23 other Soviet ships in the South China Sea, concerned that some or all might be headed for the Indian Ocean. The Soviet ships shadow every U.S. movement. In addition, Soviet IL-38 "May" reconnaissance planes, based in Aden or Ethiopia, regularly drop to within 1,000 ft. of U.S. ships for close peeks, as do "Hormone" helicopters from Soviet vessels...