Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strait every day, to and from the southern end of the Suez Canal. Moderate Arab states bordering the Red Sea-Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia-fear that the Soviet Union, already well established on the eastern side of the strait in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, may have designs on Djibouti in a move to control both shore lines. There is speculation in Djibouti's seedy bars that Moscow has not tried to establish diplomatic ties with independent Djibouti because the Kremlin may have already marked the territory for eventual disappearance-perhaps in a partition...
...jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp run by the Marxist, militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...spread of Soviet influence on the Horn so distresses Arab leaders that four of them recently convened an extraordinary summit at Ta'iz, in the Yemen Arab Republic. The four included Numeiry and Somalia's Red-lining President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Marxist President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the leader of the Yemen Arab Republic. They set aside differing political views long enough to agree on a pan-Arabic, pro-Moslem program against Ethiopia. Meanwhile neighboring Saudi Arabia, which has been pushing aid to Somalia in hopes of wooing it away from...
...time he reached Addis Ababa last week, Castro had already stopped in Algeria, Libya, South Yemen and Somalia, a desert land where Soviet influence is particularly strong. From there, he proceeded to Ethiopia, Somalia's neighbor and archenemy. His presence in Addis Ababa must have pleased the current military boss, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, since Castro is the first head of state to visit Ethiopia since the country's squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were...
...than Iraq. In the end, the Arab League members-with Iraq voting against the Riyadh endorsement-agreed on a plan that will allow Lebanon's President Sarkis to choose soldiers from any state that offers them. So far, troops have been offered by Saudi Arabia, North and South Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Libya and the P.L.O. The expectation is, however, that when the force is finally drawn up, the bulk of its members will be wearing Syrian uniforms...