Word: chadli
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...what draws the bucks? That's the $31, 498,872 question. In part, it's the obvious manipulation; filmed interviews with the parents of eight-month-old dead babies, singers so crippled they need straps to stay in their wheelchairs, Chad Everett weeping. A man with no upper-body movement who says he only wants to hug another human again; a man with frozen facial muscles who says he wants only to smile. Jerry Lewis, talking about how long he's spent in this crusade, and then stage-whispering, "I got to get a dollar more than last year...
...Uganda's Idi Amin Dada failed to keep that despot in power. Despite generous support for the Palestinians, he has few real friends in P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's entourage. Gaddafi's only notable success came last December when his forces invaded and virtually annexed Chad...
Colonel Gaddafi's comments on international terrorism are absurd. He is a prime example of one who exploits troubled fellow African nations to justify his expansionism. I was a resident in N'Djamena, Chad, until February 1979, when I was forced to leave. As I followed the events in Chad, I was amazed by Gaddafi's intervention and changing support for the various factions...
...planes from Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon (see preceding story). In the U.S. three weeks earlier, the Reagan Administration had expelled 27 Libyan diplomats in protest against what Washington regards as Gaddafi's outrageous policy of bankrolling terrorist activities around the world. In the Central African country of Chad, meanwhile, 4,000 Libyan troops served as a virtual occupation force five months after Gaddafi's military intervention in support of President Goukouni Oueddei in that country's civil war. This was exactly the sort of move that has enraged Gaddafi's neighbors-especially Egypt...
Rumors are flying around N'Djamena to the effect that Vice President Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue, the present leader of Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré's well-disciplined force of 1,500 men is regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people...