- Title: SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION: BRITISH MINISTER ARRIVES IN ADEN FOR INDEPENDENCE TALKS
- Date: 27th November 1964
- Summary: 1. LV. PLANE LANDS 0.06 2. CU. SIGN "ADEN" 0.08 3. SV. OFFICERS TALKING 0.10 4. SV. GREENWOOD LEAVES PLANE, IS GREETED (2 SHOTS) 0.34 5. SV. GREENWOOD TOWARDS CAR 0.42 6. SV. CAR AWAY, FOLLOWED BY SOLDIERS IN JEEP 0.55 Initials JT/V/WH/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th December 1964 12:00
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- Location: ADEN, SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION
- Country: Yemen
- Reuters ID: LVAEFNYEQ4X26SWHFYQ78YR6K2OQ
- Story Text: BRITAIN'S COLONIAL SECRETARY, MR. ANTHONY GREENWOOD, FLEW INTO ADEN TODAY (FRIDAY) AMID STRICT SECURITY PRECAUTION. HE IS ON A TEN-DAY VISIT TO THE SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION TO DISCUSS ONE OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S PRICKLIEST PROBLEMS: INDEPENDENCE FOR THE COLONY.
DURING HIS VISIT TO ADEN -- BRITAIN'S MAJOR OVERSEAS MILITARY BASE -- HE WILL HAVE TALKS WITH THE COLONY'S POLITICAL LEADERS ABOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE, THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE.
LAST NIGHT, THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE OCCUPIED SOUTH, A UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC-BACKED ORGANISATION WHICH HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR THE END OF BRITISH RULE, ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING ANYONE TAKING PART IN TALKS WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
(TONIGHT, THREE BOMBS EXPLODED AND THREE BAZOOKA SHELLS WERE FIRED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF ADEN AS MR. GREENWOOD WAS ATTENDING A RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. SIX PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN ONE OF THE EXPLOSIONS).
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