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...scene was Independence Square in N'Djamena, capital of the war-torn Central African state of Chad, and the crowd of 200,000 was the largest the city had ever seen. Facing the podium from the flatbed of a ten-wheel German truck were 21 Libyan prisoners of war, some of them wounded and all of them disheveled and frightened. For a moment a heavy silence hung over the square. Then, as a great roar rose from the crowd, hundreds of people ran toward the vehicle, throwing sticks and stones. The Libyans cowered to protect themselves against the onslaught...
...meantime, the impact of the region's fierce factionalism was once again being felt in unstable Lebanon. On Christmas Day a Libyan diplomat based in neighboring Syria, Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, was killed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when gunmen raked his car with machine-gun fire. The Bekaa is a ! stronghold of Lebanese Shi'ites who still blame Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the 1978 disappearance and possible murder of their spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr. The assumption in Beirut was that the diplomat's killing was the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese...
Chad's 20-year civil war took a startling, bloody turn last week as some 2,000 rebels battled three Libyan columns in Chad's Tibesti mountain region. The guerrillas, who earlier helped Libya gain a foothold in northern Chad, broke with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi after his troops shot and wounded Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei last October...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...
...more important, the mood of respect and camaraderie which Reagan cultivated with the press has eroded recently, especially in the wake of the Libyan disinformation campaign. The recent Congressional election also hurt Reagan in the media's eyes. When Reagan lost the Senate, 55-45 to the Democrats, he lost his aura of political invincibility...