Word: yemeni
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...Cole were swift, but efforts to explain how last week's attack could have taken place offered little cause for comfort. The size of the blast, the perpetrators' ability to conceal the bomb and their advance knowledge of the arrival of the Cole--the ship's commanders notified Yemeni authorities 10 days before last Thursday that it would refuel in Aden--suggest that the attack was plotted weeks, even months, in advance. Once it pulled into Aden, the ship was highly vulnerable--to the bevy of small craft mingling around it, to the port authorities who had dispatched the moorers...
...least seven sailors and wounding about 30. Ten were reported to be missing and presumed dead. The Cole had been heading for the Gulf, where it was to help police sanctions against Iraq. The attack was followed Friday by an explosion at the British Embassy in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital. The suspect list in both incidents would have to include the Osama Bin Laden network, in whose stomping ground it occurred, and whose leader might see Arab rage against Israel and the U.S. as an opportunity to burnish his claims to pan-Islamic leadership. Then there's Hezbollah...
...Socks, e.g. 13. Hafez Assad's Foreign Minister for the last 14 years of his rule 14. Inflation-fighting WW II org. 15. 14 years later, the govt. says it's going to shut it down 17. Left Coast luggage tag 18. What Rosie did 19. Flying start? 21. Yemeni port 22. __/Faulkner, book award 24. Barbra's Funny Girl co-star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch 35. Cancel, in Hollywood-speak 36. "__'s Law" (governs computer power and cost...
...give trigger locks away 5. __ Kabibble 8. According to its president, it won't increase output in July 12. Prefix with lock or knock 13. Gallery-funding org. 14. Mission: Impossible theme-composer Schifrin 15. Yemeni port 16. Former colleague of Mike and Morley 17. Home for an SS-18 18. Dance partner? 19. He had his 15 minutes of fame in '95 20. "Love Bug" creator de Guzman, who claimed it was released "by accident" 21. They've offered to begin disarming 23. Ludwig __ Drake 25. Run out of Time? 28. Two shakes 29. The House has extended...