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With its poverty-ridden population of 4.6 million, almost no mineral resources and negligible strategic value, Chad never seemed important enough for major powers to worry about. But last week, alarmed by the latest turn of events in the landlocked former French colony, President Reagan authorized an additional $15 million in military aid to the embattled government of President Hissène Habré, bringing the total U.S. commitment to $25 million. The reason for the U.S. concern: Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi had dramatically stepped up his support for rebels trying to topple Habré. Said a senior State Department...
...more than a year, Gaddafi has been giving arms and money to the forces of former President Goukouni Oueddei, which number as many as 5,000. The fighting took on a new dimension two weeks ago, when Libyan MiG-21 jets strafed the northern Chad oasis of Faya-Largeau soon after government troops had recaptured the town from Goukouni's rebels. Gaddafi's jets continued their raids last week, reducing much of the brick-and-mud town to rubble...
...Chadian capital of N'Djamena, along with three U.S. advisers to show government soldiers how to use the weapons against Libyan aircraft. Because it takes only one day for a soldier to learn how to use the Redeye, the U.S. advisers are expected to be out of Chad soon...
...that it wasn't close call, though. A scoring spree by UNH's Chad Doe wiped out a four-goal first-half lead. And the Crimson suffered another long scoring drought--24:55, stretching from the second to the fourth quarter. But a gift goal by Harvard's Peter Follows brought the Crimson back to life, and the hosts held off late Wildcat pressure to preserve...
...trouble spots of the Middle East, the only one that offered Washington solace was Libya. A week earlier the U.S. had dispatched air and naval units to the eastern Mediterranean in the face of reports that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was about to attack Sudan or Chad. U.S. pilots were under orders to follow any Libyan aircraft that attacked their planes "back to the hangars," meaning that they should bomb the airfields from which the Libyan planes had taken off. But the crisis receded as quickly as it had arisen, leading Shultz to declare that "at least...