Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
Cubans are also active in a number of Arab states. They train Polisario guerrillas from Western Sahara in Algeria. In South Yemen, there are more than 3,000 advisers and special forces, including MIG-flying pilots. By far the largest detachment is in Syria: 3,500 to 4,000 men, including an entire armored brigade (with 94 Russian T-62 tanks), two commando battalions, perhaps 30 or more MIG pilots...
...chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison in early 1974, is now editor in chief of al Akhbar...
...face is seamed. From her solitary, seemingly foolhardy labors have grown two orders of women and men willing to take risks and make sacrifices. Nearly 1,300 Missionaries of Charity-1,132 nuns and 150 brothers-are now scattered throughout 67 countries tending the world's poor: in Yemen and Gaza, in Australia and Peru, in London and in New York City's South Bronx-even, at Pope Paul VI's request, in the shadow of St. Peter...
...group during the 1960s, and the nearly 6% annual rise from 1970 to 1974. These gains, of course, were not evenly distributed; a dozen or so nations, such as Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan, developed much more quickly than most of the others, while a few, including Southern Yemen and Niger, have actually had a negative rate of growth. In many underdeveloped countries, moreover, programs that have achieved targeted rates of growth have failed to raise living standards or generate savings because the gains have been offset by population growth. Swiss Economist Paul Bairoch points out that the pace...