Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Administration. And you'll recall at that time it was the Legislative, not the Executive, Branch which prevented action designed to support those who were opposed to the Soviet-supported outcome. Since that time, we've been plagued with similar situations in Ethiopia, in South Yemen, North Yemen, Afghanistan, in Kampuchea [Cambodia]. And we now see a very clearly delineated Soviet-Cuban strategy to create Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America -Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first phase...
There seems to be no question that the terrorist groups of more than a decade ago, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Black September movement, depended on the Soviet-allied countries of Syria, Iraq, Libya and South Yemen for training, money and arms. Some also trained in Czechoslovakia and even the Soviet Union. Other groups, such as the Japanese Red Army and Italy's Red Brigades, have more tenuous Soviet links...
...cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments and vital interests would inject some uncertainty-and possibly some additional caution-into Soviet calculations...
AFGHANISTAN. With Syria and Marxist South Yemen dissenting, the conference passed a Saudi-backed resolution committing Tunisia, Guinea, Iran and Pakistan to assist U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in seeking a settlement. It stopped short of condemning the 1979 Soviet invasion, but called for the withdrawal of the 80,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq reported "intimations of flexibility" from both the Soviets and their puppet in Kabul, Babrak Karmal. But the militant Afghan rebels, in spite of their close relations with the Saudis, adamantly refused to sit down with representatives of Karmal...
...Assad learned that the new "moderate" axis of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq intended to attack Syria at the conference for supporting Iran, a Muslim but non-Arab nation, in the gulf war. Syria abruptly announced that it would boycott the session, and so did Algeria, Libya, South Yemen and the Palestine Liberation Organization. At the same time, Syria massed a total of 36,000 troops along the Jordanian border to show its displeasure with King Hussein. The King responded by positioning 24,000 troops of his own, nearly half of Jordan's regular army...