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...spite of first denying that Americans were involved with the Libyan military, the State Department, after discussing the matter with the CIA, last week confirmed that U.S. citizens have been hired to service, and work as crew members on, Libya's Hercules troop transport planes and Chinook military helicopters. Said a State Department spokesman of the activities promoted by the former CIA agents: "We find it reprehensible and against the interest of peace and security." Wilson, operating out of his posh villa in Tripoli, is still actively engaged in providing support for the Libyan military, and the Times quotes...
...bizarre showcase for all this lethal hardware is the 13-month-old Persian Gulf conflict. Iraq has been using Soviet MiG jets, French Mirage jets, Brazilian Urutu armored personnel carriers, and Soviet T-72 tanks to fight Iran's American F-4 jets, British Chieftain tanks and Italian-built Chinook helicopters. "The Iran-Iraq arms buildup is a classic case of internal pressures and external fears combining to produce a disaster," says a diplomat who has served in both countries...
...thousand military personnel and civilians took part last week as the 15-flight "Rocky Mountain Transfer" got under way. Soldiers carrying grenade launchers patrolled Stapleton, and teams of medics with Chinook helicopters were stationed at four points along the air route, which was mapped across the sparsely settled northern sections of both states. In Utah the truck convoy that would carry the bombs 40 miles from Dugway Proving Ground, where the planes were scheduled to land, to Tooele was well rehearsed: drivers and guards had traveled the route three times, foiling nine different mock terrorist attacks along...
...sizable military force into Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habré agreed to a cease-fire sponsored by the Organization of African Unity...
...what was once prime fish and game area on the mountain's flanks will find nearly all life wiped out within a 15-mile radius of the crater. The rivers and state-run fish hatcheries near the mountain have been ruined as breeding grounds for steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. Said Mike Wharton, an employee of the Washington State department of game: "We've lost millions of fish." When might the area recover? Replied Wharton, 28: "Not in my lifetime...