The World - News from Feb. 6, 1986
Soviet pilots may have bombed the Aden airport in support of hard-line Marxist rebels who toppled South Yemen’s head of state, Ali Nasser Hasani, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported. Such Soviet support “is believed to have turned the scales in the savage fighting,” the British magazine said. Quoting unidentified Mideast sources, Jane’s said that “up to 100 Soviet advisers may have been casualties” in the two weeks of fighting last month between the two Marxist factions.
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