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...Libyan troops bring calm-and the threat...
...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...
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...
...been slow to react to the anti-Soviet mood that developed in France after Moscow's invasion of Afghanistan. Frenchmen still do not understand his surprise meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw last May. Giscard's failure to act more decisively to prevent the Libyan invasion of Chad last December has eroded much of the credit he won after sending French paratroopers to the threatened Shaba province of Zaire...
Heymann said that in the Billy Carter case--in which the former president's brother was forced to register as a Libyan agent--"we threw our files wide open" and called the matter "a lot of flap over relatively little...