Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence began in San'a, the sleepy capital of increasingly prosperous North Yemen, which is heavily subsidized by Saudi Arabia. North Yemen had been taking tentative steps toward union with the Marxist regime in impoverished South Yemen, which was a British colony until leftist insurgents gained its freedom in 1967. Seeking to kindle the spirit of friendship, North Yemen's President Ahmed Hussein Ghashmi, 37, prepared to welcome an envoy sent by his South Yemen counterpart, Salem Robaye Ali, 43. Unknown to the visiting diplomat, however, his black leather briefcase, which actually contained Robaye Ali's proposals...
Even for the Arabian peninsula, where the art of politics still involves tribal feuds, intrigue, murder and bloody coups, it was an extraordinary week: within 48 hours the Presidents of both North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) and South Yemen (the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) were killed. The double deaths mean political instability for the two neighboring states at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Both countries are strategically important for they can control access to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, through which pass tankers carrying 60% of the oil used by Western Europe...
DIED. Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi. 37, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (Northern Yemen); by assassination; in Sana. As an envoy from the neighboring Yemen People's Democratic Republic (Southern Yemen) opened his briefcase to deliver a message to Ghashmi from President Salem Rubayi Ali, a bomb exploded, killing both Ghashmi and the envoy. The commander of Northern Yemen's army, Ghashmi had been President for only two months and had survived at least one attempt on his life. He succeeded Ibrahim al-Hamadi, who died eight months ago at 41 when assassins machine-gunned...
...describe Saudi Arabia as "needing" 60 F-15s, the most advanced planes, for defense [May 8]. Come on! F-5Es (the ones Carter proposes to sell to Egypt) would be adequate for defense against Iraq and South Yemen; even 160 F-15s would not be enough to protect Saudi Arabia from a highly improbable attack by Iran. Saudi F-15s would be of no use except in an Arab war against Israel...
...adversaries which are directly across the Red Sea from a nation that provides 10% of America's oil supply, why should there be any question about our selling F-15s, an essentially defensive weapon, to a more reliable ally, which is surrounded by radical leftist regimes in South Yemen, Ethiopia and Iraq...