Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after day, the exiled P.L.O. left Beirut for Syria, for Jordan, Sudan, Tunisia, North and South Yemen. Some 185 wounded guerrillas embarked on a Red Cross vessel bound for Cyprus and Greece. Conspicuous among the countries that had not agreed to accept a significant number of P.L.O. evacuees was Egypt, which had been asked by the U.S. to take a group of 3,000 Palestinians. The government of President Hosni Mubarak refused, saying that the removal of the P.L.O. from Lebanon should be linked with diplomatic steps toward a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian problem. Explained an Egyptian official: "When...
...forget the extent to which they were deserted on this occasion." It was partly to assuage such bitterness that the Syrians last week reversed themselves and agreed to accept some of the P.L.O. guerrillas from Lebanon. (Other countries willing to take in the P.L.O.: Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, North Yemen, South Yemen and the Sudan...
...more radical states, such as Libya, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen, have lost prestige in the Arab world as a result of their failure to aid the Palestinians. Says Peter Duignan, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution: "The image of Arabs standing together has been shattered." The Iraqis were particularly angry at Syria's Hafez Assad and Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from...
...fail to notice that Brezhnev's highly conspicuous black ZIL limousine was no longer speeding down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt around 10:15 every morning, taking the leader from his suburban dacha to his Kremlin office. Significantly, TASS reported that a visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England...
Since World War II, banners bearing variations of the hammer and sickle have been unfurled in 15 countries. The victory of Marxists in nations as diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun and that the other side may be winning. Without resorting to quite the rhetorical excesses of his former boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig uses almost every occasion he can to raise the alarm: "Moscow is the greatest source of international insecurity