Maalla and Tawahi Residents Felt Quakes: 
Maalla and Tawahi residents, Aden governorate were awakened by two quakes Thursday morning. 
A number of them called Al-Ayyam on the same day and reported to have felt two quakes at 4:35 a.m. and 5:05 a.m. Al-Ayyam contacted the Djibouti Airport Earthquake Observation Center, which confirmed that two quakes were observed by the Center, but it couldn’t confirm whether they were natural quakes or resulted from some action. 

Call for Gathering at British Ministry: 
A leaflet was distributed yesterday in London calling on those who residing in the United Kingdom and belong to the southern and eastern governorates of the Republic of Yemen to gather and attend a mass demonstration opposite the British Ministry of Commonwealth and Foreign Affairs. A movement calling itself the Movement for Self-Determination for the South Arabian State distributed the leaflet. Al-Ayyam received a copy of the leaflet. 

Child Transported by Helicopter: 
The 8 year-old child Musa’ed Saleh bin Gahraz was transported by a helicopter of the armed forces last Tuesday because of his critical health condition which needed prompt movement to hospital. 
Musa’ed, from Rakhiyyah Province, Hadhramout Governorate, was unintentionally hit by a bullet while a brother of his was playing with a pistol. He was hit under his right eye. At Al-Qatn hospital to which he was first brought, doctors ordered his prompt movement to Sana’a, but not over land. His family approached the Armed Forces asking for his movement to Sana’a by helicopter which was agreed to. 
 

Al-Shumoa’ 
Independent 

Cautions Against Dealings with 239 Businessmen: 
Banks active in Yemen are the victims of the most serious assassination actions through unpayment of bank loans. 
Despite the alarms raised by the Central Bank of Yemen to these banks against providing any facilities or loans to indebted businessmen, who didn’t settle their loans some banks just found it useless to stop doing so especially when such indebted businessmen are share holders of the same banks. 
In such circumstances economists have noticed severe and fast retreat of investment in development and banks are reluctant to finance such projects. 
Many rumors on hot commission making and fraud cases in which bank officials colluded with businessmen whose names were included in the list distributed by the Central Bank of Yemen are heard. Deals are made through moving these loans to the list of dead and uncollectable debts. 

Ra’y 
Sons of Yemen League 

Hadhramout Nasserite Leader Defects to League: 
Mr. Abdurrahim Ba Wazir, Democratic Nasserite Party Politburo member and Chairman of its Hadhramout branch announced that he is resigning from the party and joining the Sons of Yemen League. During an interview with Ra’y he indicated that he has concluded his League accession procedures and expressed his happiness to be awarded the honor of joining the established and pioneer League. 

American Officials Hold Important Talks in Sana’a: 
Ambassador Edward Walker, the American Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and North Africa Affairs held undisclosed important talks yesterday with high Yemeni officials, while Admiral Moore, leader of the 5th. American Navy, which belongs to the Central Command, attended the inauguration party of the premises of the National Demining Committee. 
Mr. Walker, accompanied by his deputy Mr. Newman, met yesterday President Saleh, The Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The talks were dedicated to the bilateral relations and the developments of the Middle East Peace Process. 

Student Shoots Headmaster: 
The attack by a Hayel School student on its Headmaster and the break into another school and forcing its teachers and students out have raised a high wave of anger and dismay among education workers and laborers that might develop into a partial strike. 
 Mr. Issam Al-A’abed was admitted into the intensive care unit at Al-Thawra Hospital after he was shot by a student at school. In another incident an armed gang broke into Martyr Mohammed Ismail School claiming to be looking for a student causing a lot of fear among the students and teachers and forcing them to leave the school. The Syndicate of Educational Professions called for a partial strike in the western area of Sana’a in protest and threatened to further expand the strike if demands to penalize the culprits were not met. 

Al-Wahdawi  
Popular Nasserite Organization 

An Attempt to Assassinate Dr. Hamidi Fails: 
An attempt on the life of Dr. Abdulla Al-Hamidi, the General Director of the Republican Hospital failed last Tuesday. An unidentified person brought an advertisement bag containing a hand grenade to Dr. Hamidi’s home, delivered it to one of those at home and asked that it be given to Dr. Hamidi personally when he is back. He gave a false name and left. 
Dr. Hamidi was back at home by 9 a.m. and was given the bag that he found very heavy. He couldn’t remember anybody in the name given by the unidentified person. When the doctor opened the bag he found the grenade and promptly summoned the police. 

Undeclared American Mediation Between Yemen and Saudi Arabia: 
The Joint Yemeni Saudi Arabian Military Committee continues meets today to examine the border land marks that were renewed according to Al-Taif Agreement amid reports on an American mediation to solve the border issue. 
The Yemeni side of the Committee had withdrawn from its last meeting because the Saudi side insisted to limit the work to maps only without any field activities. 
 These developments coincided with a statement by theAmerican Assisstant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs in which he said that he heard from the Yemeni side its understanding of the border issue and that he will convey to the Saudi side. When asked whether that was some kind of mediation he declined to consider it in such a way, but he added that his country would like to see this dispute soled through negotiations, the sooner the better. 

What is Behind Visits of Jewish Delegations? 
The Yemeni authorities didn’t limit [contacts] to the cultural exchanges within art activities or to the ‘seeds of peace’ program at the United States attended by the Zionist entity, nor to the secret meetings held to exchange poems of ‘Shabazi’ or to consider these visits as aiming to discuss the conditions in which the Jews of Sa’dah live. 
May the Yemeni authorities revise their wrong calculations? Do Yemeni officials know that entering the quagmire of normalizing relations [with Israel] and diving in its mud compromises the cause of a people and a nation? 
Lastly. Shall the Government of Yemen and its officials unveil the causes behind these repeated suspicious visits? Or may be these official mouthpieces are over whelmed by sleep on a Jewish carpet 

Al-Balagh  
Independent 

Details of White’s Kidnapping: 
Search for the American had continued for several days until it was determined that he was kept at a village in Al-Jawf. The security forces surrounded the village and demanded the prompt release of Mr. White and cautioned against inflicting any harm upon him. 
At this point mediators hurried in order to accomplish the release of the kidnapped. A report said that the kidnapping costed 6 million Yemeni Rials. 
  On the other hand, Sheikh Hamood Adharihi, agent of the Al-Munqidh Company denied that the company played any role in the kidnapping or had any information about it. He said, “It is a single-handed act by some share holders and neither the Company nor the Islah party had any thing to do with it.” 
He added that negotiations for the release of Mr. White were held directly between Government and the shareholders who kidnapped him and not between Government and the Company or him as its agent. 
He denied having any details about any payments made for the release of Mr. White. He added that the amount of money due to Al-Munqidh Company is 67 billion Y. Rials. It shrunk to 36 billions after many attachments were deducted. He said that the company was ready to accept even a _ of this amount but Government continued to refuse, and we don’t know about any promises that were reached between Government and the kidnappers. 

Al-Sahwah 
Yemeni Islah Party  

Ruling Party’s Media Hysteria Increases 
The ruling Party’s media organs continue to suffer from a hysteria of spreading its accusations and play the role of courts in one party ruled systems. 
Political and media sources explained this condition of confusion that some forces are trying to escalate conflict between the Islah Party and the People’s General Congress in order to fulfil their own personal interests in power conflict by taking the most inflexible positions. 
Sources pinpointed the serious contradiction between this hysterical campaign led against the Islah from within the PGC, by accusing the Islah of being behind troubles and disorders while the plain facts show clearly that a number of kidnappers were appointed to high civil and military posts and received millions of Rials from Government. 

The Fruits of an Old Plan: 
At the beginning of the 20th. Century a conference was held in Cairo by preachers of Christianity who were complaining to each other because Muslims were found very difficult to be converted to Christianity. They declared that they were hopeless of their mission. But Zuwaimer – a Jew who claimed to be a Christian to be able to deceive other people more easily- said: We don’t need to bring Muslims into the Church, we need only to bring them out of Mosques, and suffice! 
He also said that the education of women is the guarantee that their plan shall succeed, because he knew that if women are corrupted they move corruption into newer generations. Some people when they read this may understand that we are against the education of women. We don’t object the education of women because we know that ignorant women were the cause of our backwardness. We are keener on educating women. But what should women learn? Licentiousness and corruption. Shall the secular West be our teacher? 

Al-Osboa 
Independent 

A Call for the Expulsion of a Lawyer 
Lawyer Yassin Aburrazzaq demanded in a letter to other lawyers attending the currently held 3rd. Conference of the Yemeni Lawyers Syndicate and to the representatives of the Arab Lawyers Union that lawyer Hafedh Abdulla Fadhel to the Disciplining Council and expulsion from the list of participants in the Conference because of his visit to Israel at the end of 1996. 
He demanded also that Mr. Fadhel be compelled to surrender his passport on which he got a visa from the Cairo Embassy of the Zionist entity.