U. S. Calls for halt of yemen bombardment

SANA, Yemen — Northern forces continued to rain artillery shells and rockets Friday on Aden, capital of Yemen’s breakaway south, and the United States called on the north to cease the deadly

bombardment. In Washington, the State Department voiced alarm over the shelling of Aden and said there were heavy casualties. It said the attacks violate a U.N. Security Council resolution

for a cease-fire. The south said Thursday that more than 800 civilians had been killed or wounded since Sunday in Aden. Aden radio quoted unidentified southern Defense Ministry sources as

saying battles continued Friday around the port city, which has been besieged by northern forces for most of the war. Southern forces in the country’s 1 1/2-month-old civil war claimed to

have inflicted hundreds of casualties on the northerners as well. MORE TO READ