John Bull figure', Queen's yachi and out of Aden last week.
crazed blood bath.
The Mirror forgot to mention what Peter White's 'heroic' predecessors did.
Britain seized the territory of South Yemen in the middle of the last cenlury. It carried out an occupation against the local people for years without putting penny into the countrv's develon. ment. The territory . was important because of the strategic situation of the Port of Aden al the entrance to the Red Sca During the 1960s Aden became a by-word for torture and British brutality. 'RETURN OF the great British hero', trumpeted the Daily Mirror when ex-copper Peter White, 'a 6ft 3in escorted evacuees onto the The fighting in South Yemen has been presented as a When the People's Democratic Republic of South Yemen was finally liberated by the National Liberation Front in 1967, it was one of the poorest countries of the region.
The tensions which led io the open armed struggle, , between rival factions ed by President Ali Nasser Mohammed Socialist secretary Abdul Fattah Ismail, were not concerned with foreign policy. loyalty USSR, though Ali Nasser leant more towards friendrelations with the NORTH RED YEMEN SEA ETHIOPIAS DJIBOUTI Djibouti 100mls SOMALIA Yemeni Arab Republic 10 the North, and with the other oil states of the region.
The core of the dispute lies internal policy Ismail stood for a hard line against private agriculture But the issues have spilled over into the structure and