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...capital of N'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...
Callinan's partners in the backfield, halfback Jim Acheson and flanker Steve Bianucci, are both sidelined with injuries today and will probably not play. Jim Garvey--Harvard's fourth-leading ball carrier this year with 73 yards--will fill in at flanker, and Scotty McCabe should sub for Acheson, who has been bothered by a bad shoulder all year...
...Soviet sub goes on the rocks
...took the Swedes 15 hours after the grounding to get a navy picketboat to the scene, but then the pace quickened. Armed with submachine guns, Soviet crewmen paced the deck of the sub, a diesel-powered relic from the 1950s, which lay stranded like a great gray whale. Swedish Commander Karl Andersson boarded the intruder and talked to Captain Pyotr Gushin, whose increasingly melancholy air bore a remarkable resemblance to that of Actor Theodore Bikel, the beleaguered commander of the Soviet sub in The Russians, etc. Andersson emerged to say that the Soviets "blamed their accident on an error...
...Cambridge City Council may be the only local municipal government in the nation that boasts a sub-committee on foreign affairs...