Word: chad
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Richter was supported by a solid defense, as 14 of Quinnipiac’s shots were blocked by Harvard blueliners. In the middle of the second period, after Richter blocked a close Bobcat attempt, sophomore Chad Morin cleared it out of the crease along the right boards. During a Quinnipiac power play late in the third period, junior Jimmy Fraser made another solid save for the Crimson...
TIMANE ERDIMI, Chadian rebel leader, whose forces have advanced to within 60 miles of Chad's capital city, N'Djamena, in a bid to force a power-sharing deal with President Idriss...
...French Connection Throughout Darfur's war, weapons have flooded in from Chad. When Sudan's security chiefs realized Déby would not cut the rebel supply lines, they resolved to get rid of him. Their offers of money and guns found plenty of takers among disaffected Chadian commanders. Three times the Sudanese organized attacks, nearly capturing N'Djamena in April...
...Djamena turned on Feb. 3. French logistics and intelligence were pivotal, though Déby's tactical prowess and rifts among the rebels helped too. Neither of the two main rebel chiefs, Timan Erdimi and Mahamat Nouri, wants the other to become President. The French weapons now pouring into Chad on Libyan aircraft will not seed stability. Many will flow into the armory of Déby's Darfurian ally Ibrahim Khalil, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, encouraging him to escalate his war in Darfur...
...sees only a military solution. He used the rebel attack as a pretext to arrest the leaders of Chad's civil opposition. They are alive - for now. On Feb. 4, Paris won the U.N. Security Council's authorization to send weapons to Chad. France is fast becoming a belligerent in Chad's war, and an accomplice to a crackdown on the faint hope of a democratic future...