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...Djamena, until November 1980, when Gaddafi dispatched to Chad a contingent of 4,000 troops, complete with tanks, rocket launchers, mortars, helicopters and MiG-25 fighters, to support Oueddei. Habré quickly agreed to a cease-fire and fled. Gaddafi, who dreams of creating a sub-Saharan Islamic republic from Senegal on the Atlantic to the Sudan on the Red Sea, announced a month later that Libya would "merge" with its southern neighbor...
...Arab world, Gaddafi tried to engineer mergers first with Egypt, then the Sudan, Tunisia and finally Syria. He bankrolled Palestinian commando groups, including the extremists of Black September, and at one time made his country a refuge for international air hijackers. By pouring petrodollars into poor sub-Saharan Africa, he persuaded a number of African nations to sever their ties to Israel. At the same time, he proffered arms and money to "liberation" movements across the globe, ranging from the Irish Republican Army to the Philippines' Muslim rebels. Most recently, Gaddafi angered the West by dispatching "death squads...
That is the way all too much of the world's most important business is done these days. From the shrewdly sophisticated kickback schemes of the Middle East and Latin America, to the virtual Mafia-style and shakedowns of sub-Saharan Africa and Indonesia, the universal game of bribery in the pursuit of profit goes...
...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 stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. Despite diplomatic pressures on Gadaffi to withdraw his troops, however, the Libyan presence in Chad is growing. Last week Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White traveled to Chad by crossing the Chari River in a dugout canoe and reached the war-ravaged capital...
...reinforcing Western security. It needs the British and the West Germans to shoulder more of the defense of Europe, so that the U.S. can concentrate on the Persian Gulf and other far-flung trouble spots. It needs French help in combatting the Libyans and other international muggers in sub-Saharan Africa. It needs the Japanese to assist in shoring up the security of the Pacific. These alliances are already strained, and there is plenty of blame to go around. American leadership has been erratic; the West Europeans in general have been excessively parochial; the French in particular have enjoyed...