Word: seesaws
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...will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before the agreement and skeptical of the mercurial Libyan's change of heart, they viewed the accord as a French betrayal and a Libyan deception...
...Crimson softball team took a seesaw contest at Boston College yesterday...
...come-from-behind victory in a game that saw the lead seesaw back and forth more often than U.S. foreign policy raised the Harvard record to 4-2 and marked the Crimson's fourth home win in as many tries. It also saw the cagers post furious rallies at the end of regulation and overtime, a habit that's become something of a trademark of this Harvard squad...
...rest of the half was a seesaw battle The Crimson, though clearly more talented, could not assert itself enough to wrest control of the game. Goalie Lisa Rowning and the Harvard defense held the Big Green scoreless...
...flown out of Faya-Largeau at night when government forces could still use the town's unpaved airstrip. Evacuation of the injured ended abruptly when Libyan bombing raids put the airstrip out of action. After that, the wounded died amid the ruins of the town that, in the seesaw fighting for control of the north, they had actually recaptured from their enemies only ten days earlier...