Word: chadians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming in low from the south across the sluggish Chari River, four Mirage fighters peeled off and soared upward to gain height for their final approach to the airport at N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. A few minutes later four Jaguar fighter-bombers repeated the maneuver. By the end of the day the little airport, which normally handles only a dozen civilian airliners a week, had begun to look like a military airbase. Parked next to the jets on the runway apron were half a dozen Transall military freighters and a C-135F aerial refueling plane, together with five...
...northern Chadian oasis town of Faya-Largeau, which fell to Goukouni's Libyan-supported rebels two weeks ago after a ten-day bombardment by Libyan aircraft, Libya was resupplying its 3,000-man garrison. For their part, the French were busy flying troops, arms and ammunition to their outposts in Abéché, Biltine, Arada and Sallal. The four towns are positioned along the main routes that an invading force from the north would have to use to attack the capital. The advantage of this new "line in the sand" is that it is situated at the limit...
...diplomatic solution. In Brazzaville, French Minister of Cooperation and Development Christian Nucci spoke for an hour with the Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdessalam Ali Triki. Earlier, Mitterrand had sent his special adviser on African affairs, Guy Penne, to meet withHabré in N'Djamena. Although the Chadian President had previously branded Penne a "poor imbecile" who was the head of a "pro-Libyan lobby,"Habré said after the meeting that his relations with France were "clear and unambiguous."Habré, 41, a wiry man with fierce brown eyes, reserved his harshest words for Gaddafi...
...were finally managing to show unity in their response to Libya's actions in Chad, an article in the French newspaper Le Monde sowed new discord. The article, based on an interview with Mitterrand, described the French President as irritated over the Reagan Administration's interference in Chadian affairs. It said that Mitterrand was angry about Washington's constant harping on Franco-American "cooperation," which left France open to Soviet charges of being a "tool of American imperialism." In fact, Mitterrand asserted, France is committed to the defense of Chad's territorial integrity, not to toppling...
Whatever happens next is not likely to happen quickly. French officials say that the "training" of the Chadian army will take four months. But no matter how long it takes, the French will not be inclined to pull out if Libya continues to reinforce its garrison at Faya-Largeau. At the moment,Habré is powerless to conduct the war as he sees fit. As soon as he is able, however,Habré is determined to see to it that the northern oasis, near which he was born, does not remain in Libyan hands indefinitely. "They can take Faya-Largeau...