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...True," he said. "But everyone's at war anyway. Iran, Iraq, North Yemen, South Yemen, Lebanon, Syria--no one will know the difference. Pick a target, any target--look, there's a ship down there. Ready...
...July she was again loaded with rifles in Poland and then ammunition in Portugal. Harbor documents showed she was headed for Yemen, but the ship's manifest said Guatemala was the final destination. She returned to Portugal and then departed for Cherbourg, where Hakim had her cargo transferred to another freighter, which later docked at two government depots in North Carolina. It is unclear whether the weapons ever reached the contras. The Erria was then used in an attempt to exchange rifles with Iran for two captured Soviet T-72 tanks sought by the U.S. for intelligence purposes -- a deal...
...rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about $65,000 each now, to be sold for use as medicines in the Orient or as dagger handles in North Yemen, Anna Merz has about $1 million stomping around inside her fences...
...same time, Muhammad was trying to build diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union, a long-term aim of the Kremlin's foreign policy. Western diplomats tended to believe that Moscow had felt comfortable with him and was dismayed at the speed with which South Yemen dissolved into tribal warfare...
Behind them, across the water, the flames of tribal warfare had spread to the country's remote regions, and there was a danger that the fighting might eventually extend to North Yemen and beyond. How long the battle of South Yemen might continue was impossible to say. But at week's end the rebels, with apparent Soviet backing, were trying to cobble together some sort of provisional government...