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Article: Bad Summer for Moammar Gadhafi
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 9, 1987
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IT HAS BEEN, fortunately, a bad summer for Moammar Gadhafi.
Chad, a country the Libyan leader has tormented for years, spent
August reducing his army and prestige to tatters. Showing that its
victory of last March was no freak, the government of Hissene Habre
took back the disputed Aozou border strip that Libya had annexed 14
years earlier. Chad then carried the war to Libyan soil for the
first time, devastating a base from which Col. Gadhafi had launched
his depredations.
It is the case that Chad's armed forces had help in becoming
more than the ragtag band of one of the more impoverished and
tribally divided countries in Africa. The French, playing a discreet
and useful patron's role, ...