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Outside forces, however, were more aggressively interested in the outcome. Oueddei was actively backed by his neighbor to the north, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously seized a swatch of disputed borderland. Chad seemed to fit neatly into the Libyan leader's ultimate dream of a sub-Saharan republic. Habré, meanwhile, was less directly supported by France, as part of Paris' abiding policy of trying to maintain a forceful role in the affairs of the French-speaking former African colonies...
Gaddafi proved to be not only closer to Chad but also more anxious to break the stalemate. Terming it "technical and humanitarian assistance," the Libyan leader dispatched a sizable military force into Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habr...
...energy producers have been squabbling among themselves all year. Saudi Arabia and Libya broke off diplomatic relations last October when Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi urged Muslims not to make their annual pilgrimage to Mecca because he claimed that the shrine had been desecrated by U.S. radar surveillance planes flying overhead. And after the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq, the cartel had to cancel a gala meeting in Baghdad in November that was to have celebrated the group's 20th anniversary...
...reserves as a cushion against future price increases or production shortfalls. World reserves are about 300 million bbl. above normal for this period, and both the U.S. and Japan have decided to increase their stockpiles. Without that small world glut, OPEC would probably be pushing up prices even faster. Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar, who is normally one of the OPEC hawks, said after the Bali meeting: won't ask for higher prices if the market won't permit...
...past several months the early shows have scooped their evening news cousins on several occasions. Billy Carter chose to talk first about his Libyan connections at that hour, and Gerald Ford electrified last July's Republican Convention with the announcement that, yes, he might be interested in becoming Vice President again. Many people in Washington consider it a duty to turn on the TV before they turn off the electric blanket, just so they will not miss a similar thunderbolt. Some day, indeed, anthropologists doubtless will wonder how people ever woke up in 1951-and in all the millenniums...