The World - News from Feb. 19, 1986
The State Department offered to accelerate U.S. military aid to Chad in its war against Libyan-backed guerrillas. It also echoed French charges that the airport at N’Djamena, the capital, was bombed by Libyan warplanes and not, as Libya contends, by guerrilla aircraft. Chadian President Hissen Habre’s government, meanwhile, thanked France for heeding its call for military assistance. An estimated 500 French troops have been sent to Chad since the weekend.
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