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  CIVIL ANS NRMED IN SOUTH YEMEU  ES  
  Southgun Yen na officiala havr      
  started to arm civilians to bolatds 
  Ad n's difenceg in thu ci il war.   
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  A spokesman said man  civilians     
  wiry vaterans of the war against    
  British rule which ended in 1967,   
  and were "abl  fighttrs".           
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  Southj n troops ar  fight n         
  block northj n forcro ddplo9ed mn   
  at least four fronts.               
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  M anwhile, No the n forc   ha       
  captured the socthp n tobn nf       
  Beihan in the oil-producing         
  pro bncn of Shabwa.                 
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