Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another court, Penn's Chad Hazam was beating Harvard captain Butch. Kawakami decisively at number six, and Quaker captain Hugh Curry had already whipped sophomore Dave Fish in straight sets, 6-2. 6-1at number two for Penn's first match point...
...five and six Penn's Eliot Berry and Chad Hazam may represent the best lower ladier combination in the EITA this spring. Berry, who lost to Washaner in straight sets at number five last year, will confront junior Bill Brock, and Hazam will play against Harvard captain Butch Kawakami...
Garros' sector, just south of the Sahara, is occupied by descendants of the same Moslem fanatics who killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in Khartoum 85 years ago. A Sudan-based outfit called the Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT) claims credit for the current insurrection. French-educated François Tombalbaye, the only President this ten-year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their...
...resurrecting the legion, Paris apparently acted out of fear that if a pan-Islamic force gained sway in Chad, there would be trouble in other former French colonies on Chad's border-Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroun. Backed mainly by the Saras, who account for just 17% of the population, Tombalbaye's one-party dictatorship was near collapse when he asked for French troops under a defense pact with Paris. The French garrison at Fort-Lamy was increased to 2,000 infantry, marines and air force men, but the legionnaires have handled most of the fighting...
...doubtful that the Chad campaign will revive the old legion cry: "Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive la Légion Etrangère." Many legionnaires consider the campaign a temporary reprieve for a fading outfit. "The Viets tried to kill us, and so did the Algerians and the French high command," said one veteran. "But in the end, red tape will get us. This may be our last beau geste." Said Garros: "We're damned glad to be here...