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...President Taylor, a U.S. merchant vessel with a small cargo of cotton, was cruising in the Gulf of Oman 26 miles out of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujaira when it happened. An Iranian frigate warned the Taylor to prepare to be boarded. The U.S. captain reluctantly consented. For 45 minutes an Iranian officer and six seamen, three equipped with submachine guns, searched for matériel that might be destined for Iraq, Iran's enemy in the five-year-old gulf war. Finding none, they departed...
...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...
...week, it announced that government forces had foiled the attempted coup and maintained, "the situation in the capital is calm." That, quite obviously, was not true. Though the fighting faltered occasionally, it continued throughout the week. Eyewitnesses spoke of "deafening blasts" and "sky-high balls of flame" in the port. On Thursday, a Western diplomat in San'a, the capital of neighboring North Yemen, reported that gunfire and rocket exchanges had continued in Aden through the day, adding that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told of the explosion of an ammunition dump...
NASA's woes were further accentuated by a Soviet coup. Just as U.S. television cameras were showing the Navy recovery ship, the U.S.S. Preserver, bringing to Port Canaveral its dolorous cargo in a flag-draped container last week, Soviet television was beaming to the world images of a triumph: the successful launch of a Soyuz spacecraft that carried a pair of cosmonauts to the Soviets' newest space station. Normally, the Soviets announce space shots only after they have been safely launched. Though last week's "live" telecast appeared to be risky--what if something had gone wrong?--the Soviets actually...
...ecstatic Vargas promptly flew to the port city of Guayaquil. Said he: "I am at your orders, Mr. President." The general was placed in custody and then held at the Mariscal Sucre Air Base outside the capital. The government, meanwhile, was vague about whether Piñeiros and Albuja had actually left their posts. That prompted sympathetic officers at the air base to free Vargas, who declared that he had been double-crossed by the President. Thus began a second rebellion. Vargas threatened to march on the presidential palace. Before a cheering audience of 600 supporters outside the air base...