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...scene was Independence Square in N'Djamena, capital of the war-torn Central African state of Chad, and the crowd of 200,000 was the largest the city had ever seen. Facing the podium from the flatbed of a ten-wheel German truck were 21 Libyan prisoners of war, some of them wounded and all of them disheveled and frightened. For a moment a heavy silence hung over the square. Then, as a great roar rose from the crowd, hundreds of people ran toward the vehicle, throwing sticks and stones. The Libyans cowered to protect themselves against the onslaught...
...presence of the Libyans, captured a few days earlier at Fada in northeastern Chad, proved, if proof were any longer needed, that the soldiers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have been fighting on the ground in Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage...
...Following a ghastly wave of terrorist attacks, all air traffic between the United States and Great Britain is halted. Men's soccer Coach Jape Shattuck scrambles to arrange boat passage for his team, most of which is now stranded across the Atlantic. Crimson goalkeeper Chad Reilly, a native of Needham, MA, offers to play all 11 positions until his teammates arrive...
...Chad's 20-year civil war took a startling, bloody turn last week as some 2,000 rebels battled three Libyan columns in Chad's Tibesti mountain region. The guerrillas, who earlier helped Libya gain a foothold in northern Chad, broke with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi after his troops shot and wounded Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei last October...
France last week joined the increasingly international battle by air- dropping supplies to the rebels, who are now backed by Chad President Hissene Habre. Meanwhile, the first of some $15 million in U.S. emergency military aid arrived last week in the Chad capital, N'Djamena, for the fight against Libya...