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...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...
...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...
Libya's immediate reaction to the air clash was relatively mild. The Tripoli government claimed that eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees...
...about 3,600 miles to the east, or to the Mediterranean Sea, some 3,200 miles to the northwest. Meanwhile, an imposing Soviet fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will not grant...