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...Chad, at least 1,000 Libyan troops remained in the African country, despite Gaddafi's agreement with French President Francois Mitterrand, made in September, to remove them. As a result, French troops are on stand-by in neighboring Central African Republic and in Gabon...
...blood and photographed to look as if he had been murdered. The pictures were sent to Gaddafi, who immediately took credit for the apparent crime. According to Mubarak, the four gunmen-two of whom were English-revealed details of a Libyan hit list. On it were such leaders as Mitterrand, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and India's late Indira Gandhi...
...Paris, Mitterrand's government was trying to cope with the outraged domestic reaction to the Chad fiasco. Said former Prime Minister Maurice Couve de Murville: "France has suffered one of its most serious humiliations in a long time." Writing in Liberation, a leftist newspaper, the respected commentator Serge July observed: "The worst in this kind of affair is that everyone expects Mitterrand to be duped, and in the end he is duped. You can't believe your eyes. One asks oneself if there is not something suicidal in Mitterrand's behavior." The barrage of criticism did little...
...spite of the diplomatic debacle, Mitterrand appeared unruffled at a meeting at the Elysee Palace with West German Chancellor Kohl to discuss Kohl's trip to the U.S. and the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. Asked about the presence of his name on Gaddafi's assassination list, Mitterrand said with an impatient smile, "If some thing happens, we will let you know." Said Kohl: "We will wait to see the developments [of the Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played...
Less than 24 hours later, French President François Mitterrand took off for the Greek island of Crete, and a surprise summit meeting with Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Back in Paris, Mitterrand was forced to admit that, no, the Libyans had not completed their pull-out and that approximately two battalions still remained. There seemed little doubt, as the Paris daily Le Monde put it, that the U.S. statement had "profoundly embarrassed the The French bid adieu to Libyans French authorities...