Word: gadaffi
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Libyan Strongman Muammar Gadaffi last November dispatched tanks and troops into neighboring Chad, defeated one faction in that country's sputtering civil war and announced a "merger" of the two nations. Since then tremors of anxiety have reverberated across West Africa. Last week a meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa was marked by angry attacks against Libya's "aggression" in Chad. Many West and Central African leaders fear it is only the first step toward a consummation of Gadaffi's long-range ambition to establish an Islamic sub-Saharan republic...
...Indeed, Chad has requested that the U.S. and other Western powers, who withdrew their representatives when the fighting broke out last year, reopen their embassies as soon as possible. But many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity has called on Libya to withdraw its troops so that an agreement worked out in 1979, calling for fresh elections supervised by a pan-African peacekeeping force, can be carried...