Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gallic welcome ended several years of frostiness between Paris and Cairo and demonstrated a recent shift in the French diplomatic posture with regard to the Middle East. Giscard has been burned by Libya, whose Colonel Muammar Gaddafi recently made a power grab in the former French African colony of Chad. As a result, he has been discreetly backing away from his formerly enthusiastic support for radical Arab regimes...
...sinister handmaiden of Soviet military adventurism has been covert action and mischief-making by proxy. There are widespread reports, for example, that the Soviets encouraged Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in his recent annexation of the central African nation of Chad. Libya has long been a conduit for Soviet arms to the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as revolutionary groups in the Philippines, Chile and Turkey. Congress should repeal or amend legislation that limits the ability of the CIA to conduct clandestine operations abroad...
...react to the anti-Soviet mood that developed in France after Moscow's invasion of Afghanistan. Frenchmen still do not understand his surprise meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw last May. Giscard's failure to act more decisively to prevent the Libyan invasion of Chad last December has eroded much of the credit he won after sending French paratroopers to the threatened Shaba province of Zaire...
Perhaps no country was more sur prised and upset by the Libya-Chad agreement than France, Chad's former colonial ruler and self-proclaimed postcolonial "protector." Until last May, France regularly backed Chad with financial and military aid, and it privately supported Habre's losing side in the civil war. Thus the mood in Paris now was one of embarrassment as well as consternation. As it happened, the announced merger came only a day after Libyan officials revealed that they had signed a long-term contract with Elf Aquitaine, France's state-con trolled oil company...
During the civil war in Chad, the government of President Valéry Giscard...