Word: yemenis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids are really lucky. They're growing up in at least five cultures: the traditional Yemeni at their grandmother's the Orthodox shtieble on the corner, Israel every summer, my friends from the Institute of Social Analysis and Greenwich Village, and our black neighborhood. That combination is just about unbeatable...
...Soviets' major practical contribution has been prospecting for and developing oil. Eight Russian rigs are drilling in Shabwa, and the Soviets are searching out more untapped desert pools. Now the Yemeni government is urging Moscow to speed up other large projects long promised. The Kremlin has been slow to finish a $450 million power plant begun eleven years ago. But after a row in Aden last June, trained Soviet labor began arriving, bringing the imported contingent of skilled workers to more than...
...most popular pastimes is chewing kat, small leaves from a mildly narcotic and addictive plant. Strict laws forbid the sale except on two-day weekends of the so-called Yemeni vodka, which has a disastrous effect on productivity. Women are free from most Islamic restrictions, able to choose the chador or the dress. In fact, the country adheres little to either Muslim or Marxist strictures. Liquor is sold, and the Communist Party numbers only 20,000 members...
...battalions, plus 60 Soviet-made tanks, just across the Oman border, as well as 160 more tanks in the rear. The Soviets are expanding an air base at Al Ghaida, a town just down the coast from Oman. The runways there will soon be able to handle the South Yemeni air force's MiG-21s, which Omani officials say are piloted by Cubans, East Germans and North Koreans. Oman's own armed forces include officers from Britain and Baluchi tribesmen from Pakistan on contract to the Sultan...
...dance teacher with Experiment in International Living, a student-exchange program, taught the monks to dance about ten years ago. Doing dances of folk origin was first a bad-weather recreation, then a way to make visitors feel at home. On days of celebration, the monks might incorporate a Yemeni desert dance or a Serbian wedding step into their Mass. Brother John, Weston's prior since 1964, explains how recreation entered the liturgy: "For us, dance is a prophetic community sign, a way to express our hopes, our fears, our faith. It is a sign that contradicts the cynicism...