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...some 1,000 French paratroopers. Though the French soldiers were ostensibly in Chad as "instructors," the fact was that there were already half as many French troops in the country as there were soldiers in the Chadian army. The French buildup was a warning to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose intervention in behalf of Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei had threatened to topple the government of President Hissene Habré. The message: Libya should not move its forces any farther south in the direction of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. What had started two months ago as the latest...
...preliminary efforts to find diplomatic solutions to the Chadian impasse. Meeting in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo People's Republic, ten African heads of state called for a cease-fire in Chad. In N'Djamena, PresidentHabré did not rule out the possibility of holding talks with Gaddafi but said he would never negotiate with his archrival Goukouni, whom he described as a "Libyan mercenary." Gaddafi, in turn, held a press conference in Tunisia at which he brazenly denied that there were any Libyan troops in Chad...
...Chadian President had previously branded Penne a "poor imbecile" who was the head of a "pro-Libyan lobby,"Habré said after the meeting that his relations with France were "clear and unambiguous."Habré, 41, a wiry man with fierce brown eyes, reserved his harshest words for Gaddafi, who in 1973 seized and annexed a 44,000-sq.-mi. stretch of northern Chad known as the Aozou Strip. SaidHabré: "Libya now occupies half of Chad. Gaddafi wants to annex Chad, and that is that...
...more mysterious diplomatic mission involved Mitterrand's lawyer and close personal friend, Roland Dumas, who flew to Tripoli for a three-hour meeting with Gaddafi. When word of Dumas's trip appeared in the press, French officials claimed that it was a "private" journey. There were unconfirmed reports that Dumas had warned Gaddafi that France would use force if the Libyans decided to advance on N'Djamena, and advised Gaddafi that he would do better to accommodate himself to the French presence than to risk bringing the U.S. and the Soviet Union into the conflict...
...Gaddafi, in turn, reportedly hinted to the French that he was willing to talk peace. But on what terms? Previously he has urged France to help overthrowHabré and pave the way for a new "government of national reconciliation," presumably meaning one that would be more mindful of Libyan wishes. One possible solution might be international recognition of Libyan control over the Aozou Strip, in return for Libya's withdrawal from the rest of Chad. Another would be the effective partition of Chad into a Libyan-dominated north and aHabré-controlled south. But neither of those formulas would...