Word: chadness
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...Obviously I'm a little disappointed," Harvard sophomore goalie Chad Reilly said. "He's a great coach, and I really enjoyed playing under...
France, which ruled Chad in colonial times, is taking the lead for its Western allies in the desert war, while the U.S. is sending weaponry. Over the years Chad (pop. 5.2 million) has suffered from a variety of tribal and political conflicts directed against the government in N'Djamena, which Paris has always backed. At the same time, a force of some 8,000 Libyan troops has been fighting in the north alongside the Chadian rebels...
...recent history of Chad has been a contest between two rival northerners, Goukouni Oueddei, who was once the country's President and has more recently been the leader of the northern rebels, and Hissene Habre, once a guerrilla leader and since 1982 the President. Three months ago, while ( visiting the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Goukouni was shot and wounded in the Gaddafi compound under circumstances that have never been explained. He is still in Libya, reportedly under house arrest...
...whatever reason, Gaddafi's break with Goukouni caused most of the Chadian rebels to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Habre, thereby fundamentally changing the political role of the Libyan forces in northern Chad. Says a Western diplomat in N'Djamena: "What you have now is an invasion of Chad by Libya." Much of the credit for Chad's recent achievements goes to Habre, a French-trained lawyer who has managed to create a sense of unity in a country that has never known the meaning of the word. Buoyed by these successes, the soft-spoken Habre sounded unusually confident...
Public strikes cause chaos in France. -- Chad scores a victory against Libyan forces. -- South Africa's new attacks on the press...