Word: djamena
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...response, the U.S. has rushed 30 heat-seeking Redeye missiles to the 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...
...government of French President François Mitterrand has sent close to $40 million worth of arms and supplies to its former colony since late June. Last week France responded to an urgent plea from Habré by shipping antiaircraft weaponry to N'Djamena. Mitterrand has hesitated to send French troops to Chad. But he has come under pressure from a number of African nations that fear a Libyan victory in Chad would encourage Gaddafi to spread his subversion throughout the area...
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...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
...fighting soon broke out between the armies of the Libyan-backed Oueddei and the French-backed Habré. The struggle continued off and on, killing thousands and ravaging the country's riverside capital of N'Djamena, until November 1980, when Gaddafi dispatched to Chad a contingent of 4,000 troops, complete with tanks, rocket launchers, mortars, helicopters and MiG-25 fighters, to support Oueddei. Habré quickly agreed to a cease-fire and fled. Gaddafi, who dreams of creating a sub-Saharan Islamic republic from Senegal on the Atlantic to the Sudan on the Red Sea, announced...