P525 525 TELEINF 03:57:07 holy month of Ramadan, a newspaper reported Monday. The punishment was ordered bz a court in Tawahi, a town in the southern governorate of Aden, said Al-Tajamuh, mouthpiece of the leftwing yemeni unionist rally party. The paper said it was the first public flogging for consumption of alcohol during Ramadan under Yemen's islamic Sharia law. The consumption or sale of alcohol is strictly forbidden during Ramadan. moslems are obliged to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex between sunrise and sundown during the holy month, which started last week. moslem fundamentalists have gained strength in southern Yemen since northern troops defeated southern sjparatist forces in the civil war from May to July of last year. see next page >>>