Word: yemens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cautious as individuals. Western airline flights to Baghdad and Kuwait City have been canceled as part of the international embargo against Iraq. Some carriers have gone further. Jet Tours, a major holiday carrier 70% owned by Air France, has simply shut down all its tours to Syria, Jordan and Yemen. Some regular commercial carriers are making costly detours around the entire Middle East region. KLM, for example, is rerouting long-haul flights that normally land in Dubai or Bahrain, cutting its weekly service to the region by more than half. Pan Am has rerouted its flights from Frankfurt to Pakistan...
...Saddam and finally used the only accurate word: hostages. But he insisted that despite his concerns about their safety, the United Nations food and trade embargo "must be enforced." He won a significant victory early Saturday when the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 0 (Cuba and Yemen abstaining) for a strongly worded resolution authorizing nations with naval forces in the area to use "such measures . . . as may be necessary . . . to halt all inward and outward maritime" commerce. It was the first time in its 45-year history that the U.N. had authorized force to back up economic sanctions...
...Saddam's tactics have failed. Rather than unravel, the anti-Baghdad coalition knitted itself more tightly last week. After two weeks of sometimes intense dickering, the U.N. Security Council voted 13 to 0, with Yemen and Cuba abstaining, to authorize "such measures commensurate to the specific circumstances" to enforce the sanctions voted against Iraq four days after the invasion. At Soviet insistence, the phrase "minimum use of force" was dropped, but that is still what the new, vaguer language means. With five dissent-free votes condemning Iraq in three weeks, the Security Council has taken on surprising new life...
...force was necessary to make the sanctions stick gained credibility last week. According to White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Iraq was getting round the prohibitions to obtain military materiel as well as supplies used in the production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others to discharge...
...closest ally. Japan, which has assiduously avoided conflict with gulf states to guarantee a steady oil supply, chose principle over economics. Switzerland, which does not belong to NATO, the European Community or even the U.N. and ordinarily eschews economic sanctions, took sides by joining in. Even Cuba and Yemen, Security Council members that abstained in the vote for sanctions against Baghdad, fell into line when the Council moved to condemn Iraq's announced annexation of its tiny neighbor...