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.
A motorcycle gang is not “a total
criminal organization,” Smith said,
but “I have not found any who ham
per any of their members from con
ducting illegal activities.
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