European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine with Yemen moving slowly of rat of women Are still regarded As second class country on a permanent High Worth Yemen int exactly a household it Bounds like Tine of Tho it Oil Rich Arab Arab a but lit All ii imported maybe the most precious Tull it hoi to Altai i Qai these an a correspondent who travelled through Yemen unt Tell Byell Santar associated Pren the men Wear skirts and Are the most valuable the women Wear the pants and Are Yemen is poor and Only now is beginning to come out of the 12th Century unlike most developing it has a labor shortage instead of a employ it has a balance of payments surplus instead of being in Hock to everyone and it is unaffected by Oil the country is on a permanent and not just because in has mountains up to most adults spend about two hours a Day and a sizeable part of their paychecks chewing a Green Leaf dial is a mild yemenis drive with Speed in their operate the nations new satellite communications station with bulging Chaee Fuu of the stuff and have formal at government ministers end peas ants Chew and most foreigners Nave tried it at least they say it takes get Ting lied von Seldera we a fat they Are Short and and at cob the except for a Tew westernized the men Wear midcalf skirts and have curved daggers struck in their until a couple of Yean they carried firearms into but a new government took Over in led by a 34 year old army Ibrahim Al be b bringing this tribal society to Gether and persuaded the men to leave their rifles at the men Are its hard to Tell what the women Are they Ara covered in end cloaks and the woman Day is one of Drudgery at bogged Down with she eaten to Ber Man in everything from the food Hemati to the a flows be pits but education is beginning to work Sana newly counts 100 women among its Rock and decorated with White washed filigree the windows and Gingerbread like Ena Menti on the the government uni ordered that All new housing conform la this style to retain the Tyi it is uniquely doors Are Steps Are and there Are few Eleva since Sanas Elevation is a round of visits leaves one gasping far Bui westerners say after a couple of months that they feel better than they did at ancient cartographers called Yemen Arabia Felix fortunate be cause the country is intensively cultivated in Mountainside terraces that look like three dimensional Jigsaw and its people were it there had been an organization of frankincense exporting countries then Yemen would have been the undisputed because it had nearly cornered the frankincense was used in the roman Empire in burial and Camel caravans carried in from the mountains of Yemen where 11 grew on Trees to the Queen of who ruled Yemen when Solomon was King of made a but when the Raman Empire became christianize and frankincense went out of uie Bottom dropped out of the Yemen went into a Long period of the wind has blown a lol of Sand since then and after Feudal Rale by a family of religious a civil War and egyptian Yemen now is coming out of its the country has million but about million men live including places like and modes one million Are in neighbouring saudi taking advantage of the labor demand generated by the Oil except for the yemenite jews who emigrated to Israel in the Early 1950s to escape discrimination under moslem Send 770 million a year Back Home to their yemeni Central Bank officials say that As a More foreign currency comes in than is spent abroad highly unusual tar a developing nation and in 1975 Yemen had a balance of payments surplus of 318 North Yemen lives off subsistence exports a Little Rock Salt and because Yemen has a free the Money in citizens working abroad Send Home through to the villages instead of slopping in so theres no big urge among rim people to flock into the x with a population has Only motor vehicle and no ils the ind of place where phone numbers have Only four digits and Yoa ran into the tame stranger three limes a the yemenis Are Tough people who dont believe in Healing their Homes even when the temperature hovers near thus they need Only million barrels of Oil a or the amount produced by saudi Arabia in five the already comes front neighbouring South in an Era of High the government subsidizes the Price to keep it at the 1973 other costs Are an armload of Al now costs about four times what it was two years and a on bedroom apartment goes for 1200 a four limes what it was in civil servants Are paid a an unskilled labourer fled and an experienced construction Foreman there seems to be plenty of Cash because the show sell nil Motorc baby food trim Lily and most of the but what yemenis seem to prefer spend ing most their Money on is one bigwig is said to spend about 70 a Day on has its own kind of the tour and five stories arc built of Duih Calfred hurling stones at Birds with sting to keep them from yemeni merchant having a got August 1977 the stars and 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