Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bold venture for either side to make a military move. The Libyans are known to have ground-to-air missiles at Faya-Largeau. The French have conventional antiaircraft missiles, while Chadian troops in the forward positions have been issued some of the 30 Redeye missiles supplied to Chad by the Reagan Administration as part of a $25 million emergency-aid package...
...face of the French military buildup. Aware of the French reluctance to launch an assault, Gaddafi seemed to be hoping that he could secure through negotiations at least part of what he had sought to achieve through force of arms, namely the annexation of a chunk of northern Chad...
With the arrival of French airpower in N'Djamena, the U.S. announced that it was withdrawing the two AW ACS surveillance planes that it had sent to the area a month ago in the hope that Mitterrand would intervene directly. The Administration feared that if Chad fell to Gaddafi, the Libyan leader would be in a position to threaten such U.S. allies as Egypt and, especially, the Sudan. The AW ACS planes never took part in the Chadian war, but they became an unfortunate symbol of the differences between Paris and Washington over how to deal with the crisis...
...interview, Mitterrand tried to put to rest the U.S.-French dispute that had flared over the question of Chad. "Let's sum things up by saying that we have not ignored the Americans, and they have concerned themselves considerably with us," he said. "We have met, we have talked. Mr. Reagan has written me, I have responded to him. It's all a question of measure. I think things are now back in order." Perhaps they were in Paris and Washington, but in Chad things were still very much in disorder...
...trouble with Perkins' letter is that it found its way into the French press. At a time when Franco-American relations are already strained over Chad and the pummeling that the French franc has received from the dollar, Perkins' electioneering ploy seemed to be a gratuitous blow to Gallic pride. "Parisians do not cry nightly with eyes bathed in tear gas," sniped Le Quotidien de Paris. "The number of Americans in Paris this August is proof of that...