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Wednesday, January 22, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation South Yemen rivals both claiming victory Associated Press Rival Marxist factions fought in South Yemen’s capital on Tuesday and both sides claimed victory, but diplomats in the Red Sea area said it was impossible to tell who was win ning the power struggle that began more than a week ago. Diplomats in San’a, capital of neighboring North Yemen, said that country and the Soviet Union were trying to arrange a cease-fire. South Yemen, a small Arab nation on the Arabian Peninsula’s south western tip, is allied with the Soviet Union ana provides it with two strat egic military bases. The diplomats said many fighters supporting President Ali Nasser Mo hammed were believed holed up in the crater of an extinct volcano on the outskirts of Aden, a position easy to defend because of difficult access. Civilians evacuated from Aden described the seaside capital as a “city of death,” its streets full of bloated bodies and burned-out tanks. Rebels led by Abdul-Fattah Ismail and Ali Antar appeared to be gain ing ground both in Aden and the provinces, the diplomats reported. Ismail is a hardline former presi dent who opposed Mohammea’s re cent overtures to the West, and An- Civilians evacuated from Aden described the sea side capital as a “city of death/' its streets full of bloated bodies and burned-out tanks. tar is vice chairman of the ruling presidium. The battle began with an attempt to assassinate President Mohammed onjan. 13. The diplomats said he now was operating from his hometown in Abyan Province east of Aden. Mohammed made a brief visit to Ethiopia, another Marxist ally of the Kremlin, last weekend and the offi cial radio there claimed his side was winning. On Monday night the Ethiopian radio read a statement attributed to Mohammed saying that, except for Aden, the country was under the “le gitimate control of the Yemen So cialist Party and government.” Rebels began broadcasting Sun day night on the frequencies used by South Yemen’s government radio. The radio is said to operate from a rebel stronghold in Lahaj, 32 miles north of Aden. Arab and Western diplomats in North Yemen, who said they were in close touch with developments across the border, described the pic ture as too confused to assess with certainty. Rear Adm. John Gamier, captain of the British royal yacht Britannia, which has been evacuating foreign ers, said Tuesday that he saw fight ing around the Soviet Embassy near the beach at Khormaksar, Aden’s embassy row. “The Soviet Embassy was actually pinned down by rifle fire while we were talking to them (the embassy personnel),” he told the British Broadcasting Corp. in a ship-to- shore radio interview. The Britannia, on its third rescue trip, was forced to stand off the port, waiting for the fighting to abate. It and other ships from Britain, France and the Soviet Union have taken thousands of stranded for eigners from South Yemen to Dji bouti, a tiny enclave on the African coast 150 miles across the Gulf of Aden. 'Gangs using legal businesses for fronts' Associated Press AUSTIN — Motorcycle gangs have turned to legal businesses such as supermarkets and hotels to laun der illegal profits and provide in come when their drug and prostitu tion operations are busted, federal officials said Tuesday. “We’re not so concerned with those businesses — it’s how they got the money to get into those busi nesses,” said Les Smith, a U.S. Marshal service inspector specializ ing in motorcycle gangs. Smith and U.S. Attorney Helen Eversberg on Tuesday opened a two-day, closed-door session at which some 200 Texas law enforce ment officials are being told how to deal with motorcycle gangs. Eversberg said the expansion into legal business has not changed the character of gangs such as the Cor pus Christi-based Bandidos. “They’re still pretty rough peo ple,” she said at a news conference. In addition to hiding illegal prof its, the businesses provide income to the gangs when “the heat is on” their illegal businesses, she said. Smith said the business ventures include hotels, supermarkets, air plane services and fishing boats. The conference will help local law enforcement officials understand “the lifestyles and modus operand! of motorcyle clubs and gangs,” according to Eversberg, the chief federal prosecutor for the Western District of Texas. “The gangs are our form of orga nized crime,” she said. “We don’t have La Cosa Nostra, but this is or ganized crime.” Smith, who works in Washington, concentrates on tracking down fugi tives harbored by gangs — a task he said is made quite difficult by the closely-knit clubs. “It’s somewhat of a fraternity, and they hide their own,” he said. “I don’t know if we have fugitives in this area, but I wouldn’t doubt it. “Once you look at one member, you’ve looked almost at all of them,” he said, adding that a quidk haircut and shave can successfully hide a fti- ■ gitive biker. 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