Word: yemeni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yemeni capital of San'a slumbered early last Wednesday morning, a Scud missile slammed into a crowded neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the city. Notoriously inaccurate, the Scud missed its intended target -- the presidential palace -- and destroyed a block of mud-brick houses. Twenty-five residents were killed in their sleep, their bodies scattered amid crumbled masonry and shreds of wicker baskets. Later, as bulldozers pushed away the rubble, workers trained fire hoses on the angry crowd to disperse it. The casualties were the first known civilian deaths in a violent struggle for power between two rival political leaders...
Despite the enthusiastic support of the Yemeni people, a successful coalition between North and South seemed unlikely. The two countries, notes Peter Rodman, director of Middle East studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...government -- tensions between the North and South increased. Al-Beidh's walkout crippled the government's capacity to act, even preventing the passage of a budget for this year. In January hundreds of people protested price rises in the North. With inflation exceeding 100% and devaluation of the Yemeni riyal eroding incomes averaging less than $600 a year, the government feared a recurrence of the food-price riots of December 1992, in which more than 100 people were killed...
...pressure. U.S. bribes and threats are all that hold this "coalition" together. The U.S. had to forgive Egyptian and Turkish debts to gain support. On the other hand, anticipating a "no" vote by Yemen on a recent U.N. Security Council resolution, the American ambassador was instructed to tell the Yemeni envoy that it would be "the costliest `no' vote you will ever make...
...nonaligned group agreed that the U.N. Secretary-General should dispatch a team of envoys on a fact-finding mission to the occupied territories. The Yemeni draft had called for the team also to recommend ways of ensuring the protection of Palestinians there, a proposal the U.S. successfully fought off. Washington does not want the U.N. directly involved in the management of the Palestinian problem...