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...loyalties from Gaddafi to Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials, Libyan forces were busy trying to recapture Fada when the fighting erupted at Ouadi-Doum...
...presence of the Libyans, captured a few days earlier at Fada in northeastern Chad, proved, if proof were any longer needed, that the soldiers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have been fighting on the ground in Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage...
...tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands, a British crown colony in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, and just south of the Equator. Here the archbishop will be confined to a small bungalow, 1,800 feet above the sea, which Lady Addis, wife of the resident British...
Johnson just can't help acting like a big shot. What he imagines, he believes, and his imagination works overtime. His parties are the biggest in the town of Fada, with plenty of gin and beer bought on the cuff, and clearly audible at two miles. He boasts about his imagined friendship with the British District Officer, and is delighted to hear that that dignitary's wife is coming from England to join him. Johnson has no idea what the woman looks like, but he has no trouble, on that account, describing her to Bamu: "Her cheeks...
...what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
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