Word: yemen
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...nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come to Germany and even Yemen, Pyongyang is talking more than ever of a "confederal republic" with two regional governments overseen by a single central committee...
...Washington's balancing act produced a compromise resolution in the Security Council. After two all-night sessions of wrangling, the 15 members agreed unanimously to a British suggestion to marry the U.S.-drafted text with a watered-down version of a proposal made by Yemen on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and backed by the seven other nonaligned Council members. The Yemeni faction had wanted the resolution to blast only Israel but, faced with the threat of a U.S. veto, the group relented in the end. The approved draft "expresses alarm" at the violence in general, thus indirectly criticizing...
...P.L.O. objected bitterly to the final wording of the resolution, but for the moment the compromise had spared the alliance against Saddam from a major rift. Even Washington's Western allies on the Council were prepared to accept Yemen's original draft and were concerned by the prospect of an American veto. As the Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible...
...gulf looks ever more probable, the uneasiness and frustration of ordinary citizens are beginning to bubble over. The looming prospect of battle has sobered some of the more exuberant supporters of Saddam Hussein's bold defiance of the West, yet in certain quarters -- especially in Jordan, Yemen, the Sudan and the Maghreb -- his following remains strong...
...Saddam's belligerence has only driven his foes to tighten their garrote around Iraq. In its eighth resolution against Iraq in eight weeks, the U.N. Security Council approved an air blockade of the maverick state. Though Cuba dissented, Yemen, once a Saddam sympathizer, voted yea, making the tally 14 to 1. Since Iraq receives little goods by air, the ban has little practical value, but it does have symbolic merit as another turn of the screw...