Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while it is quite clear that they have a direct interest in the conduct of affairs in the Middle East, they do not have a record of direct military intervention there. At the moment, their penetration of the region is quite weak, with friendly governments only in South Yemen and Ethiopia. They have been invited out of Somalia and Egypt, from which they withdrew their military advisers, and they have lost significant influence in both Syria and Iraq which previously had been seen as friends, if not actual allies. The United States, by contrast, is now making strong claims...
...million. The foreigners include Egyptians, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Thais, Filipinos and Koreans-and about 1 million North Yemenis. The Saudis need the North Yemenis, both as guest workers and as allies, and often talk about the need to defend their country from the pro-Moscow, Marxist regime in South Yemen. Nonetheless, the Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that a number of South Yemenis were involved in the Mecca siege. They also know that unstable, poverty-stricken North Yemen could link up with South Yemen to form a menacing new radical state on the Arabian...
...fight to condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Saudis' specific fear is that Moscow has embarked on a pincer-like squeeze of the Persian Gulf states by moving into Afghanistan and later, conceivably, Iran, even as the Soviets are buttressing their military outposts in South Yemen and Ethiopia...
...country, and Iran is undergoing a radical, anti-Western, anti-American revolution, with instability as its most immediate characteristic. Whatever stability and normalization the oil market regained in the years between 1975 and 1978 has disappeared, with very strong international repercussions. The Soviets succeeded in penetration to Afghanistan, South Yemen, and North Yemen. Jordan is sitting on the fence though much more inclined towards the radical Arab rejectionist front. And, Saudi Arabia, to the great surprise of both the U.S. and Egypt does not support the Egyptian policy. On the contrary, they embarked upon a course together with the radical...
...Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Albania voted against Moscow.) Fully 57 members of the Nonaligned Movement, over which Cuba currently presides, supported the resolution, and only nine followed the Soviet line. Among Muslim countries, the swing was even more drastic. Eighteen condemned the Soviet action and only two, Afghanistan and South Yemen, opposed the majority...