ABSTRACT
During much of 1968 North Yemen had little time for internal politics as its Government had to carry on the war without the help of the Egyptians. According to Pravda, the Yemen had by-passed "the religious-feudal and bourgeois-liberal stages" and passed on to socialism - an accolade which was not accorded to many developing countries. In 1969 Algeria established Joint Companies both with Sanaa and with Aden to explore for oil, although the one with the North was dissolved in 1972 as the Yemenis failed to put up their share of the capital, and the one with Aden ended in 1976 after the search proved fruitless. Early in 1972 the General Union of Yemeni Women expressed the Yemeni woman's "preparedness and the preparedness of her bases to carry arms side by side with the popular police and militia forces and all citizens loyal to the Republic and the Revolution".
