Word: aden
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...successful coalition between North and South seemed unlikely. The two countries, notes Peter Rodman, director of Middle East studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed believed the worst was over when the U.S. Marines arrived a year ago in his village just north of Baidoa. He had managed to reap a good harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains...
...relief workers have begun fortifying their compounds with razor wire, sandbagged guard posts and well-armed local gunmen. For many Somalis, the echoes of 1991 and early 1992, when the world stood by while the country slipped into famine, are disturbing. "Everyone will have to leave this place," says Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed in Asha Farto. That may be possible for a fortunate few. For the majority of Somalis, there will be no escape...
...production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others to discharge their cargo...
With a population of nearly 12 million, the new Republic of Yemen could become a regional power. Its assets include oil reserves estimated at up to 4 billion bbl. and a new commercial capital at Aden. The once busy port has lost Western business since it fell into pro-Soviet hands, but refueling at Aden could come back into favor: it would save ships 2 1/2 days of sailing...