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...Shultz and Reagan, the answer is yes, but with great caution. For example, the U.S. declined to join France, which also suffered casualties in the Beirut massacre, in a retaliatory raid against the truck bombers' suspected headquarters because Washington did not feel sufficiently confident in its intelligence. Furthermore, the celebrated failure of an antiterrorist mission could cost the U.S. dearly in prestige. Yet, with random violence increasing, the U.S., as a senior State Department official put it is determined to send an unmistakable message: "We don't allow terrorism to go unpunished...
...first and second regiments of the Chad army, which is fighting a daily game of no-prisoners with the rebels who infiltrate from Libya to the north and Sudan to the east. The enemy also uses escadrons of Toyota vehicles, usually along with a 22-ton Mercedes truck for support. Some of these get through government lines, mine the roads and frighten the local population. When they do engage the army, they usually get the worst of it. In the battlefields of what has come to be called the Great Toyota War, the desert is littered with dead vehicles...
...French Foreign Legion fort in Ati, a Scottish legionnaire checks travel documents. Of the twelve robed passengers in our truck, he asks, "Who are all those guys with spears? Are they O.K.?" Before an excellent lunch, served on fine linen, the local legion commander says, "A Goran soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank...
After Biltine comes the Sahara. Driving in the desert is like swimming in treacle. The engine screams and one inches forward with painful slowness. To stop can mean being delayed for hours, perhaps days. Suddenly a Toyota appears, followed by a truck. The wild-eyed leader, his pistol wrapped in a cloth, begs for gasoline, explaining that his small escadron has been driving all night...
...WHILE BACK. Chrysler Corporation used to run a pleasantly melodious ad campaign, called "get a check." "Buy a Charger get a check," TV personality Joe Garagiola intoned cheerily. "Buy a Ram truck--get a check, buy an Omm get a check...