Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening dialogue. Hamas has responded to my appeal for an urgent meeting in Yemen. I am also insisting that Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, be released very soon. The Palestinian people who opposed all these sacrifices will not harm this victory...
...declared. "Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem." Arafat was more intent on shoring up his own constituencies. Embarking on a week of consultations even more breathless than usual, the peripatetic chairman flew off to reassure Arab leaders in Yemen, Egypt, Sudan and Morocco...
...dismay of neighboring Saudi Arabia's conservative monarchy, the Red Sea republic of Yemen has taken a first step from one-man rule toward multiparty democracy. The General People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
Inside the store's cramped quarters, rich, dry aromas waft from the stack of coffee beans next to the mocha makers by the milk chocolate covered espresso beans ($12.50 per pound). The flavor of Ethiopian yirgacheffe coffee, Coffee Connection literature boasts, "suggests...floral lemon." A sip of "Yemen Mocha Mattari" suggests "spicy fruit or chocolate...
...General Assembly. The largely ceremonial post was expected to rotate to an Asian candidate. Where, then, did Shihabi get the fire in the belly? And how did he win so handily? Some officials believe the Saudis launched their candidate in response to a challenge from the delegate from Yemen, who had occasionally supported Saddam Hussein in the Security Council. U.N. sources also suggest that Shihabi's victory was cemented with some well- placed promises to a few impoverished countries. He was evidently so confident of winning that he and his entourage were seen inspecting the presidential offices even before...