Word: nimeiri
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...remote southeast corner of Libya, where that country borders Egypt, Chad and Sudan, Gaddafi began to assemble tanks, troops, aircraft and equipment. The target of his destructive designs was unclear. Sudanese officials recently told Washington that Gaddafi was plotting an elaborate coup against their President Gaafar Nimeiri. Having trained Sudanese dissidents as his agents, Gaddafi planned air raids on Khartoum and a takeover of the capital's airport. Last week, however, the Sudanese disclosed that the Libyan-backed saboteurs had been arrested...
...deal on Capitol Hill, the Administration also moved rapidly to send a strong signal of support to both Egypt and its beleaguered neighbor, the Sudan, which is threatened by the presence of 7,000 Libyan troops in nearby Chad. After conferring in Cairo with Mubarak and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri following Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. would speed up the delivery of arms already promised to Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt both to symbolize U.S. commitment...
...State Alexander Haig promised to speed shipments of new bombers and tanks to Egypt. An American, delegation visited the Sudan where Libya's Soviet-supplied jets have been bombing border villages, and promised to try to deliver quickly $100 million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Pakistan, where she urged more Western weapons sales to protect that country from a possible attack by Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan. Then she flew in one of Pakistan's Soviet Mi-8 helicopters to the Khyber Pass, where she talked...
Haig described the U.S. supply buildup as merely a "sign of reassurance," adding: "There are indications of increasing Libyan activity and threats to peaceful nations in the region." Haig also talked in Cairo with Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose border villages have been strafed by Libyan planes. Nimeiri says he fears a Libyan invasion, although some European diplomats in Khartoum believe the situation is not as serious as he has portrayed...
...takes 500,000 foreigners to operate his economy. Nonetheless, in December, he frightened French-speaking African countries (and angered France) by rolling his tanks into neighboring Chad, and subsequently announcing the "merger" of the two countries. He has mounted numerous coup attempts against the regime of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose country protects the lifeblood of Egypt, the Nile. Last week the Sudanese government declared that a group of foreigners arrested in Khartoum had been trained in Libya as part of another plot. Gaddafi has stockpiled $12 billion worth of mainly Soviet-supplied military equipment that some analysts fear could...