Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbors, Iraq and Jordan, and is desperately short of cash, so a union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name of the "Arab nation," have a notoriously poor track record. An Egypt-Syria merger fell apart in 1961. An Egypt-Yemen union dissolved the same year. A proposed Libya-Egypt federation was stillborn in 1973. Thus the latest proposal was greeted with skepticism on almost all sides. Anwar Sadat denounced it as "funny and childish," and added scathingly: "The destiny of the Arab nation is placed in the hands of children...
...Harvard researchers are producing the knowledge that may someday be a noxious gas that will spread over the plains of Yemen and kill 25 or 30,000 people. And though you can't see them--they hide on Huntington Avenue at the Med School or behind the great rhinoceri that guard the Bio Labs--they are doing it. And we know they are because they did it in Vietnam, when they told the President that the war could be won and then suggested that he use napalm to do it. Two Harvard men, one of them who may teach...
...Nixon favors playing that card for all it is worth, even to the point of never letting the enemy be sure whether the President might in extreme circumstances launch a pre-emptive strike. Since 1974, Nixon points out, several countries have come under Communist domination. Among them: Cambodia, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Afghanistan. Advises he: "We have to recover the geopolitical momentum, marshaling and using our resources in the tradition of a great power...
...merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...partly overlapping. In an Administration that was intending to give top priority to the Third World, we have Iran in anti-American chaos, that whole arc of crisis more and more hostile to the U.S., India and Pakistan both vying for Soviet favor, a Soviet base in South Yemen, the Afghanistan occupation, a Soviet base in Ethiopia, Cubans and East Germans all over East Africa, Central America in anti-U.S. turmoil. And the last conference of the nonaligned passed the most virulently anti-American resolutions in the history of the movement...