The World - News from Jan. 29, 1986
An International Red Cross team with 1.5 tons of medical supplies arrived in the South Yemen capital of Aden to try to help thousands wounded in 12 days of fighting between rival Marxist factions. Banks and government offices reopened for the first time in two weeks but schools, acting as temporary shelters for hundreds left homeless by the fighting, remained shut. Meanwhile, South Yemen’s new head of state, Haider abu Bakr Attas, toured the Central Bank and Treasury and called on all employes to return to work.
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