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Gaddafi's reputation as an international meddler was firmly established in 1977, when he intervened to support the nightmare dictatorship of Uganda's Idi Amin. He has invaded Chad twice, prompting French President Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement in 1984 to withdraw each nation's forces. France did so, but Gaddafi promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined...
Thundrous applause greeted Sylester "Rambo/Rocky" Stallone and his svelte fiance Brigitte Nielsen, both staunch Reagan supportors, it appears. Then came Don DeFore, and Esther Williams, and Juanita Booker, and Roy Rogers, and Chad Everett, and Ephraim "FBI" Zimbalist, and Fred MacMurray, and Charlton Heston...and the list goes on. Reagan's Ambassador to Mexico was there, too, but he was upstaged by his actress wife...
Today's Fresh troops are again in Chad a baked-dry place they might never have had to visit if not for some officer's dream of that now empty would "glory" in a distant land. The Conquest of the Sahura, besides just recounting adventures that really happened and the exotic world where they took place, offers insights into the spirit that inspired colonialism and hint of how these long-ago events influenced the intervening years...
...first to surrender any supplies of sugar, milk and detergents--officially described as "essential commodities"--to Nigerian immigration and customs officials. No one was permitted to leave with more than $22 worth of naira, Nigeria's currency. The scenes at posts along Nigeria's borders with Niger and Chad were much the same, as streams of anxious refugees sought to join others who had already left by land, sea and air. But with thousands backed up in lines that stretched for miles at the frontiers waiting to get through customs, there was no hope of meeting the timetable...
...explanation on April 15 by Nigeria's Minister of Internal Affairs, Major General Mohammed Magoro, who declared simply that "all illegal aliens are to leave before the tenth of May." About half the immigrants targeted for expulsion originally came from Ghana, the rest mainly from Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Togo, Gambia and Benin. Many had entered Nigeria illegally in search of jobs; others had fled from drought and starvation...