Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoff in Vermont, former Governor Dennis Roberts in Rhode Island, and Continental Air Lines President Robert Six in Califor nia. Eugene Black, former president of the World Bank and chairman of the library's board of trustees, has sent a letter to every foreign embassy, from Afghanistan to Yemen, suggesting how their countries might contribute, if they are of a mind...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood...
...mountains and rock-strewn wadies. Temperatures commonly rise to 110, and survival rations for British combat troops there include at least two gallons of water daily-for drinking, not washing. Aden is a tempting prize nonetheless. In a determined attempt to defend it from guerrilla bands sweeping across from Yemen, Britain last week airlifted hundreds of seasoned troops there...
...major staging post and bunkering station in the area and a key base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate" Aden. With 40,000 troops in Yemen supporting the rebels who deposed the despotic Imam Mohammed el Badr in September 1962-Nasser's force has actually grown by some 12,000 since he agreed a year ago to begin withdrawing his troops-he has been turning more and more heat on the British outpost...
Foul. For months, Aden has been under sporadic attack by some 500 to 1,000 dissident border tribesmen known as the Red Wolves of Radfan. Primed with arms and ammunition from Egyptian caches in Yemen, they have been harassing the key trade route between Dhala and Aden. Half the federation's 4,000-man, British-officered army was assigned to end the "state of revolt" last January. By March, frustrated by rebel strikes from Yemen as well, the British bombed the Yemeni fortress of Harib after warning civilians to clear out, earning a sharp rebuke from the U.N. Security...