Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian diaspora, Yasser Arafat seemed to be at home only inside the fuselage of an airplane last week. As diplomats on several continents tried in vain to understand the latest political maneuvers in the Middle East, the shrewd survivor who runs the Palestine Liberation Organization jetted from South Yemen to North Yemen to Sweden and then to Tunisia, supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat...
Yasir Arafat had the opportunity last week to dissociate himself from the mafioso style of politics that has long characterized inner PLO circles. Instead, speaking to reporters in North Yemen, the guerrilla chieftain, in an unfounded and preposterous charge, blamed Israeli agents for the Sartawi assassination. Despite such consistently irresponsible behavior, a number of European governments--Greece and Austria among-them--have established close relationships with PLO representatives. The PLO, they argue, should be welcomed into the diplomatic community by both the United States and Israel as the legitimate voice for Palestinian national aspirations...
...Palestine Liberation Organization. After four meetings in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Hussein and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat seemed for a time to be on the verge of an agreement. By the end of the week, however, it was clear that they were not. Arafat headed for South Yemen, leaving to two aides the task of telling Hussein that the P.L.O. was not yet ready to adopt a joint negotiating position with the Jordanians. That was bad news for the Reagan initiative and for the cause of peace in the Middle East...
...Soviet Union officially recognized the P.L.O. in 1974, the number of Palestinian commandos trained in the Soviet Union has swelled to more than 1,000, perhaps to 3,000. The P.L.O., in turn, has trained terrorists from many countries in a network of camps in Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, even outposts as far away as the Indian Ocean island of Socotra...
...current troubles started in the Tel Aviv slum of Kfar Shalem, when Yisrael Yehoshua, a sanitation worker who migrated from Yemen 35 years ago, added a room to the two-room house that he and 18 relatives share. City authorities said that the addition was illegal, and sent a bulldozer, accompanied by an elite police squad, to tear it down. The family pleaded with the police to wait, pointing out that Yehoshua was in the process of obtaining a temporary court injunction barring the demolition, but the authorities refused to hold off". As the bulldozer rolled forward, Yehoshua...