What the PDRY government failed to tell the YAR government was that it wished to be the dominant power in any unification, and left wing rebels in North Yemen began to receive extensive funding and arms from South Yemen.

Although the governments of the PDRY and the YAR declared that they approved a future union in 1972, little progress was made toward unification, and relations were often strained.

A presidential council was jointly elected by the 26-member YAR advisory council and the 17-member PDRY presidium.

What the PDRY government failed to tell the YAR government was that it wished to be the dominant power in any unification, and left-wing rebels in North Yemen began to receive extensive funding and arms from South Yemen.

However, these plans were put on hold in 1979, as the PDRY funded Red rebels in the YAR, and war was only prevented by an Arab League intervention.

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen PDRY was formed on 30 November 1967 when it achieved independence after 129 years of British rule.

In 1973, an SAF offensive intended to capture the main rebel supply base at Shershitti Caves was defeated, although an exposed position at Sarfait near the border with the PDRY was captured.

In the PDRY, all political parties were amalgamated into the Yemeni Socialist Party ( YSP ), which became the only legal party.

In May 1988, the YAR and PDRY governments came to an understanding that considerably reduced tensions including agreement to renew discussions concerning unification, to establish a joint oil exploration area along their undefined border, to demilitarize the border, and to allow Yemenis unrestricted border passage on the basis of only a national identification card.

In May 1988, the YAR and PDRY governments came to an understanding that considerably reduced tensions including agreement to renew discussions concerning unification, to establish a joint oil exploration area along their undefined border, to demilitarize the border, and to allow Yemenis unrestricted border passage on the basis of only a national identification card.

In May 1988, the YAR and PDRY governments came to an understanding that considerably reduced tensions including agreement to renew discussions concerning unification, to establish a joint oil exploration area along their undefined border, to demilitarize the border, and to allow Yemenis unrestricted border passage on the basis of only a national identification card.

Unlike the early decades of East Germany and West Germany or North Korea and South Korea, the northern Yemen Arab Republic ( YAR ) and the PDRY remained relatively friendly, though relations were often strained.

There were military clashes with Saudi Arabia in 1969 and 1973, and the PDRY provided active support for the Dhofar Rebellion against the Sultanate of Oman.

They attempted to establish another interdiction line, codenamed the " Damavand Line ", running from Manston, a few miles east of Sarfait, to the coast near the border with South Yemen ( the PDRY ).

Another offensive in 1975 finally isolated the rebels from the PDRY.

The PDRY established close ties with the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, Cuba, and radical Palestinians.

In 1980, PDRY president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile.

In November 1989, the leaders of the YAR ( Ali Abdullah Saleh ) and the PDRY ( Ali Salim al-Baidh ) agreed on a draft unity constitution originally drawn up in 1981.

The Republic of Yemen accepted responsibility for all treaties and debts of its predecessors, the YAR and the PDRY.

The PDRY provided sanctuary and material support to various international terrorist groups.

Unlike East and West Germany or North and South Korea, the YAR and its southern neighbour, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( PDRY ), also known as South Yemen, remained relatively friendly, though relations were often strained.

In 1980, PDRY president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile in Moscow, having lost the confidence of his sponsors in the USSR.

Before unification, al-Attas served as Prime Minister ( 1985 – 1986 ) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council ( 1986 – 1990 ) in the southern PDRY.

In that year, the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( PDRY ) adjacent to Dhofar, gave the rebels access to sources of arms, supplies and recruits, and also radicalised the rebel movement.

The publication of these and their sister Arabic-language newspapers Fatāt ul-Jazīrah and Al -’ Ayyām ( see website: http :// www. al-ayyam. info /) ceased when the National Front for the Liberation of South Yemen ( NLF ) took power in the then People's Republic of South Yemen, ( PRSY ) ( later known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, PDRY ) in 1967.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.