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While all these words were being lofted, the existing "little wars" of the world?the ones in Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Namibia, Chad, Ethiopia-Somalia, Guatemala and El Salvador?were joined by two more. The coincidence is noteworthy. After the invasion of Lebanon, an editorial in the New York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words...
After two years of spasmodic fighting, the climax to Chad's civil war came last week with surprising speed. Some 2,000 shock troops loyal to former Defense Minister Hissene Habre, 39, advanced from north and east on the dusty capital of N'Djamena. When the rebels appeared, the armies of President Goukouni Oueddei beat a confused retreat. Stranded, with only a few loyal soldiers left, Goukouni fled ignominiously into exile by boarding a canoe to cross the Chari River into Cameroon. By sundown, the three-year reign of Goukouni was over and Habre, who received support from...
...part, Habre faces the daunting task of trying to reconcile ten private armies in a beleaguered nation of 4.6 million known for ethnic chaos. Since gaining independence from France in 1960, Chad has been racked by violent rivalry between nomadic Muslims in the north and Christians and animists in the south. Even as Habre, like Goukouni a Muslim northerner, tried to consolidate his regime last week, there were ominous rumblings from southern tribesmen threatening to secede...
...party. As Lord Basil Decongestant and Lady Wilmaslipshow cavorted on stage, be-fogged alums and sotted students groped with one another, threw rice and generally had a hell of a time. So what if they couldn't hear Captain Comic, aka Lord Clark of Kent, aka Chad Hummel or even less from Ophelia Thise, played by Michael Anderson, who is mirable dictum, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. And may be there did seem to be two too many dancers on the stage all the time. Who, after all, really cares...
Perhaps Gaddafi's most brazen use of force was his invasion of neighboring Chad in November 1980 in support of President Goukouni Oueddei. Barely a month later, Gaddafi declared a merger of the two countries and kept up to 10,000 Libyan troops in Chad as a virtual occupation force. Then, just as abruptly, Gaddafi removed his troops last November after the Organization of African Unity asked him to do so. But he may not stay out: much of Chad is marked on Gaddafi's own maps as part of a greater Libya that also includes sections of Niger...