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Colonel Gaddafi's comments on international terrorism are absurd. He is a prime example of one who exploits troubled fellow African nations to justify his expansionism. I was a resident in N'Djamena, Chad, until February 1979, when I was forced to leave. As I followed the events in Chad, I was amazed by Gaddafi's intervention and changing support for the various factions...
...Senegal to the Sudan. Despite diplomatic pressures on Gadaffi to withdraw his troops, however, the Libyan presence in Chad is growing. Last week Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White traveled to Chad by crossing the Chari River in a dugout canoe and reached the war-ravaged capital of N'Djamena. His report...
Defending the role of his Libyan allies not long ago, Chad's provisional President Goukouni Oueddei boasted that since the Islamic legion had intervened, "peace and calm" had been restored to N'Djamena after nine months of bloody civil strife. Indeed, with the .exception of an occasional gunshot or the roar of a Libyan jet fighter wheeling overhead, within the capital an eerie quiet reigns. The bulk of the residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem...
Rumors are flying around N'Djamena to the effect that Vice President Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue, the present leader of Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré's well-disciplined force of 1,500 men is regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people...
...could be the next gleam in the Libyan leader's eye was swift. Said Gabon President Omar Bongo: "This annexation attempt creates a very serious situation." Egypt's Anwar Sadat and the Sudan's Gafaar Nimeiri expressed comparable concern. Within the Chad capital of N'Djamena, where months of internecine combat have left the city ravaged, there was incredulity. Said Abdelkader Kamougue, Vice President of Chad's transitional government legitimized by the 1979 Lagos agreement: "It's an impossible marriage...