Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed to put Arab money to work in the Arab world itself. One proposal by the Economic Council would create new investment laws to make it easier for oil money to flow into the war-torn economies of Egypt and Syria, as well as those poor countries, such as Yemen, that a State Department official describes as the "economic basket cases" of the Arab world. Among the beneficiaries would be Western companies, which would get a crack at contracts for steel mills, new refineries and pipelines that the Arabs need to modernize...
...late Robert F. Kennedy has been attacked by a roan antelope in Africa and knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road...
...standard, the Arabs seem hopelessly divided, ranging from the reactionary monarchy of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal to the quasi-Maoist regime of South Yemen. The extent of their differences can also be measured by their varying attitudes toward Israel. The military dictatorships of Libya and Iraq profess undying enmity for Israel and call for its extinction. The smaller states of Jordan and Lebanon, which border on Israeli power, favor a quick and peaceful resolution of differences. Egypt, under Anwar Sadat, agonizes over its past humiliations but has no wish to resume fighting, and this is largely true...
...borders to occupy several uninhabited islands within 85 miles of Bab el Mandeb. It has set up a radio and radar base on one of them, Zuqar, a 70-sq.-mi. waterless chunk of rock and sand in the Hanish group only 20 miles off the coast of Yemen. (Yemen claims sovereignty over Great Hanish, but the other ten islands in the group are officially unowned.) The Israeli commandos speak fluent Arabic, wear no uniforms and fly no flags. They are rotated every three months by naval units that put in under cover of night...
...Yemenis said they had heard about it last summer from one Baruch Zaki Mizrachi, an alleged Israeli spy who confessed (probably under torture) that he had been assigned to thwart any land-based attack at Bab el Mandeb. Israel promptly denied it-and still does. Meanwhile, militarily powerless Yemen can do nothing about Israel's penetration except complain...