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...stronghold of Aden on the southern Saudi Arabian peninsula, claiming victory over secessionists in the 65-day-old civil war. Thousands of South Yemeni residents fled, but just as many met the soldiers with cries of welcome after weeks of siege and shelling. The conflict between tribal-based North Yemen and communist South Yemen was the first since the two states merged four years ago, and had quashed popular hopes that a series of wars and skirmishes since the 1960s would ever cease. Even now, the separatist leader, Ali Salem al-Beidh, and five of his aides haven't admitted...
Northern forces shelled southern Yemen's former capital, Aden, reportedly killing at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and injuring more than 170. Amid warnings of new attacks by the northern brigades as they continued to advance toward the city limits, 900 foreigners fled the besieged port by ferry for Djibouti, in the biggest evacuation from Aden since the civil war began...
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...