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...backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory adjacent to Libya and Sudan. Libya, in the meantime, is sending military aid to Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell who is doing what to whom without...
...Cairo will also buy reconnaissance drones and sophisticated aerial cameras. President Carter promised in addition to look after Sudan's "legitimate defense needs." A U.S. military team will fly to Khartoum in August to assess Numeiry's plea for U.S.-built F-5E fighter planes. Requests from Chad will be "considered sympathetically," Carter added...
...then, Numeiry has followed Sadat's example by ordering all his Soviet military advisers back to Moscow. Cairo believes that Libya planned a twopronged assault on Numeiry: an Ethiopian-sponsored uprising in the Sudanese south, combined with Libyan air attacks from Al Kufra. Another target was to be Chad, where Libya has not only seized large chunks of disputed border territory but also supports a leftist insurgent movement that aims to oust President Felix Malloum...
Good Friend. Gaddafi, for his part, is annoyed that Egypt is becoming a good friend of Libya's alienated southern neighbor Chad. The government of Chad is battling a rebellion in the north; it has accused Libya of backing the rebels. There are rumors that Egypt is planning to give Chad military aid to fight the rebels and, ultimately, Libya...
...member nations gathered for their four-day annual exercise in disharmony at a spanking-new conference center in Libreville, the sleepy seaside capital of Gabon. Shortly after Host President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo pleaded for "a summit at which we talk about what unites us, not what divides us," Chad accused Libya of seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy" of aggression led by Somalia and Sudan. Somalia countered that Ethiopia was in fact an aggressor guilty of "black colonialism," "murder" and "massacres." Benin did not even bother...