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Manfred W. Wenner
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Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb. Author of Modern Yemen, 1918–1966 and others.

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Map of Yemen before 1990 unification, showing South Yemen in purple from Aden east through Abyan, Shabwah, Hadhramaut, and Al-Mahra, including Socotra, beside the green Yemen Arab Republic of North Yemen.
South Yemen, former country (1967–90) along the southern coast of Arabia that emerged out of a British protectorate and was unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) in 1990. Within a few years of its independence, it became the only Marxist state in the Arab worldβ€”in defiance of an…
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