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...support its growing naval activity, Russia is searching for new bases and ports of call. Soviet diplomats are setting up an embassy in the new republic of South Yemen, where the Russians have their eye on the former British naval installation at Aden; the installation not only controls entry to the Red Sea but is an ideal base from which to expand influence into the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The Soviets may also be able to use the facilities of the big British naval base at Singapore, which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he will...
...COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of a series of scientific-adventure specials filmed by Captain Cousteau under the world's major oceans during a five-year oceanographic expedition. For this week's feature, "Sharks," Cousteau's crew probes the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, studying the fish and ways to protect downed flyers and shipwreck victims from them...
South Arabia consists of the port of Aden and 17 feudal satraps whose Bedouin tribesmen eat goat meat and carry everywhere their curved djambias (daggers). Its life has been disrupted and its British-sponsored federal government destroyed by four years of terrorism and civil war. With the British will depart much of the country's economy. London paid most government expenses. British troops generated 30% of the country's gross national product, the British free port brought tourist dollars into Aden, and the British Petroleum Co. built the Federation's only significant industry-an oil refinery...
...British departure is all but complete. The tax-free shops of Aden's Steamer Point, which once swarmed with cruise-ship tourists, are now boarded up and deserted. The Crescent Hotel, hub of colonial life, is virtually empty. Aden harbor, no longer a port of call, was filled last week with the glowering grey warships of the British fleet, including the 43,000-ton aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle. All but 3,000 of the 12,000-man garrison have already been evacuated by ship and plane, most to British bases in Bahrain or Masqat and Oman; the rest will...
...much about the new government, but N.L.F. men, including Leader Qahtan al Shaabi, are almost certain to end up in key positions. Reason: the N.L.F. not only has taken control-more or less-of all 17 of South Arabia's sheikdoms and three of the states of neighboring Aden, but commands a majority within South Arabia's 9,000-man army...