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...million. The foreigners include Egyptians, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Thais, Filipinos and Koreans-and about 1 million North Yemenis. The Saudis need the North Yemenis, both as guest workers and as allies, and often talk about the need to defend their country from the pro-Moscow, Marxist regime in South Yemen. Nonetheless, the Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that a number of South Yemenis were involved in the Mecca siege. They also know that unstable, poverty-stricken North Yemen could link up with South Yemen to form a menacing new radical state on the Arabian...
...country, and Iran is undergoing a radical, anti-Western, anti-American revolution, with instability as its most immediate characteristic. Whatever stability and normalization the oil market regained in the years between 1975 and 1978 has disappeared, with very strong international repercussions. The Soviets succeeded in penetration to Afghanistan, South Yemen, and North Yemen. Jordan is sitting on the fence though much more inclined towards the radical Arab rejectionist front. And, Saudi Arabia, to the great surprise of both the U.S. and Egypt does not support the Egyptian policy. On the contrary, they embarked upon a course together with the radical...
...Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Albania voted against Moscow.) Fully 57 members of the Nonaligned Movement, over which Cuba currently presides, supported the resolution, and only nine followed the Soviet line. Among Muslim countries, the swing was even more drastic. Eighteen condemned the Soviet action and only two, Afghanistan and South Yemen, opposed the majority...
Even before the summit began, Sadat had reacted strongly to the Kremlin-decreed coup in Kabul. He ordered a cutback in Soviet diplomatic personnel in Cairo, severed all ties with the pro-Moscow regimes in Syria and South Yemen, and announced that Egypt would provide training camps and military assistance for the Afghan rebels. Sadat's Defense Minister, Kamal Hassan Ali, disclosed that the Egyptian and U.S. air forces had conducted joint exercises in recent weeks, to prepare for a contingency that might require the Americans to use Egypt's facilities. Among the U.S. aircraft deployed...
...band of 200 to 300 well-armed raiders in November seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest of all Islamic shrines, which is under the protection of King Khalid. The raiders appeared to have mixed religious and political motives: they seemingly were armed and trained in Marxist South Yemen, but were fundamentalists opposed to all modernism, led by a zealot who had proclaimed the revolution in Iran to be a "new dawn" for Islam. It took the Saudi army more than a week to root them out from the catacomb-like basements of the mosque, and 156 died...