Press Review [Archives:1999/21/Press Review]

Attariq, 
Aden Weekly, Independent, 
18/5/1999.    Main Headlines: 
1- Three citizens were killed and one other was injured in Al-Haswah, Aden, in a land mine explosion. 
2- Yemen Socialist Party (YSP) central Committee holds a stormy discussion amid division over presidential elections. 
3- The President of the Republic gives instructions to reinstate the YSP’s buildings and compounds which are not owned by citizens. 
4- Lawyers volunteer to defend Mr. Ba-Shrahil and Mr. Al-Gharib, editors with the Al-Ayyam newspaper. 
5- Difficulties in correcting the voters’ lists in Ibb governorate. 
6- Chief Editor of Attariq sends an open letter to the Chairman of the Journalists Syndicate complaining of threats against his paper by the Sanaa Weekly 26 September newspaper, the mouthpiece of the armed forces. 
7- In Shabwah Governorate, membership in the election committees are sold out in a number of the governorate constituencies. 
8- Citizens in Shabwah announce that they will boycott elections as a protest against the government’s broken promises. 

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