Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin to realize Carter's plan is a vote gathering blind. As Ted Kennedy's been saying, one Congressional aide whispers in my ear, why do it if it would only take us an extra 13 days to muster the first 100,000 men needed to fight in North Yemen. "The additional step of peacetime registration," argues a "Dear Colleague" sent out by the small-but growing ranks of Appropriations Committee members who are against Carter's plan, "is an empty symbol because it adds nothing to the speed of American mobilization in the event...
...gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting dervishes under the command of the Mad Mullah. A few weeks later the boy was watching shells burst over the Turkish lines in the Yemen...
...Last Nomad recaps these earlier works in text and photos, and then pushes on into Persia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky heights of the Yemen. After 20 years, Thesiger's words and photographs maintain a clarity and freshness rarely found in books of this type. Everything is confronted directly and, though there is sameness, there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above...
...sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear...
...used for arms purchases, or extends a line of credit for 10 per cent of the purchase, and allows the remainder to be repaid as a long-term loan. Recent U.S. beneficiaries of such arrangements include Turkey, which has occupied Cyprus illegally since 1974 (using American arms), and North Yemen. In the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, many have suggested we provide arms to Pakistan, which is currently building an atomic bomb financed by Colonel Qadaffi of Libya...