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...colonial times, British steamship passengers knew Aden, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, as a free port on the edge of a vast desert. In late 1967, after four years of civil strife, the moonscape known as Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia was granted its independence by the British government. In time it became known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, to distinguish it from the Yemen Arab Republic to the north. The only Arab country that explicitly calls itself Marxist, South Yemen (pop. 2 million) forged close ties with...
...assembly and religion were being violated. The group has launched six legal challenges, including one last week at Arizona State University in Tempe. Two of the suits have been resolved in the society's favor. "These students have the right to restrict membership based on their beliefs," says Steven Aden, who represents the Hastings chapter. Gay students there responded to the suit by organizing a beer bash to "toast diversity" and signing a petition calling for Hastings to stand by its policy. Dina Haddad of the Hastings chapter is hoping the group's legal winning streak will continue. But until...
...director Robyn Nevin gives the lithe film star room to prowl. A new adaptation by Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, which splices up Ibsen's acerbic dialogue as if in a Robert Altman movie, keeps things brisk and tense. And Blanchett plays Hedda - whose dalliance with old flame Lovborg (Aden Young) brings her under scrutiny by family friend Judge Brack (Hugo Weaving) - as neither victim nor villain, but rather as a kind of classy control freak. This most un-neurotic of actresses makes Hedda's animal instinct transparent. You can see her thinking...
...killed four passengers, was likely caused by metal support struts piercing the tubular structure's concrete shell. Their Day in Court YEMEN The oft-delayed trial of six alleged al-Qaeda members accused of planning the suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole opened in Sanaa. The attack, in Aden harbor in October 2000, left 17 American sailors dead. Alleged mastermind Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is in U.S. custody and is being tried in absentia. Another Round INDONESIA Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led in the first round of voting in the presidential election with early results giving...
...discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs. But some officials believe al-Qaeda may be focusing on harbors and shipping channels in an effort to replicate the success of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aden, in which suicide bombers used a small launch laden with explosives to rip a 40-ft. hole in the warship's hull, killing 17 sailors. --By Elaine Shannon