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...arrival in Washington might have seemed to lend the Saudis' official sanction to the September accords, which Riyadh opposes as having been achieved at the expense of the rest of the Arab world. The continued upheaval in Iran and the growth of Soviet influence in South Yemen and the Horn of Africa have convinced many Saudis that the U.S. is no longer a trustworthy bulwark against radical change and Communist encroachment in the area. As the U.S. is perceived to waver, the Saudis are especially mindful that the Soviet Union must begin importing essential oil supplies by the early...
...Middle East to nail down a peace treaty, there were no outbursts of relief or thanksgiving. In fact, there was much more excitement over the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuwait, which had just arranged a second cease-fire in the border war between Marxist, Moscow-leaning South Yemen and moderate, pro-Saudi North Yemen. For the Saudis, the importance of the cease-fire was that it had been negotiated and resolved by the Arabs. The President's visit to Cairo and Jerusalem was only another chapter in what they sadly call Jimmy Carter's "hopeless Camp...
Frontier skirmishing between the two states began several years after South Yemen gained its independence from Britain in 1967. The people of the two Yemens consider themselves to be one nation, but the radically different political views of their governments have made reunion impossible. According to North Yemen, Aden mounted the latest invasion to halt an embarrassing exodus from the south-perhaps 20,000 people since last June. The North Yemenis also charged that the invading forces had killed "large numbers of women and children" in an assault led by Soviet-supplied planes, tanks and artillery. Although claims to captured...
...conflict came at an awkward moment for Saudi Arabia; its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, was receiving his South Yemeni counterpart when the violence broke out. The two men had been arranging a visit to Riyadh by South Yemen's President, Abdel Fattah Ismail, in an attempt to relax regional tensions, ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army...
...Saudis also criticized the U.S., which it charged was dismissing the Yemen conflict as "just another border clash that doesn't mean anything." Said one Saudi official: "This is not a border clash, it is a full-scale war with the potential to spread in all directions and bring catastrophe to the entire gulf." The Saudis believe that Aden wants to unify the two Yemens by force and fear that after the collapse of American influence in Iran, Washington may not respond strongly enough to Communist subversion in the Arabian Peninsula. The Saudis are also worried about renewed South...