Word: yemen
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Forces for the northern part of Yemen announced two more unilateral cease- fires in their five-week-old civil war with secessionist southerners. The result each time, though, was the same as with an earlier truce: attacks were launched within hours, and each side denies firing the first shots...
...Cease-Fire in Yemen...
With its army slowly advancing, northern Yemen ignored a U.N. call for a cease-fire in the country's month-old civil war with the secessionist South. The North shelled Aden, headquarters for the southern rebels, and tightened the circle around the port city. Accusing Iraq and Sudan of reinforcing the North, defiant southerners vowed to resist...
Soldiers from Yemen's conservative North were reported to be bogged down along the former border between North and South Yemen 60 miles from the strategic southern port of Aden, as the formerly Marxist South claimed to have repulsed the latest attack in the civil war that broke out May 5. A Scud-missile attack launched by Southern forces killed two dozen people in the capital of San'a. Widely varying reports of the war's casualties range from a few hundred to 12,000 killed or wounded...
...YEMEN: Shooting Down Democracy...