Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claimed that eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees and their families. Nor was there any indication by week's end that Libya, which...
...were said to want a restructuring of the Syrian-manned Arab Deterrent Force in Lebanon. The A.D.F. came to Lebanon in 1976 under an Arab League mandate as peace keeper in the Lebanese civil war. Originally, it included troops from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and South Yemen, but these units have since been withdrawn, leaving only the 30,000 Syrians. The Saudis would like to see the A.D.F. again broadened to include other Arab countries, a step that would help defuse charges that Syria is using the A.D.F. to occupy and control Lebanon...
...organized crime. The infection has spread in the wake of the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s. It appeals particularly to those who could not fit into a modern, Western-style society. At its core are several Mafia-like family gangs whose ethnic roots are in Yemen and North Africa. Beginning as petty criminals, they are now said to be engaged in counterfeiting, extortion, illegal money transactions, black market operations and even drug smuggling from South America...
...Soviet government for aggressive invasion-type moves or infiltration-type moves. I think that they also do a lot of probing and testing, and if they don't meet any resistance--and they didn't in Angola, and they didn't in Ethiopia, and they didn't in Yemen, and they didn't meet much in Afghanistan except within Afghanistan--then they go ahead and do more. Each time they meet no resistance on one of these infilitrations or actual invasions, they're encouraged to do more. And I think they've had plans to do more, and I think...
...notice on any potential aggressor that a move against the country or its oilfields could bring swift retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy and a 17,000-man air force...