French Soldiers on Move as Wider War Is Feared
From Times Wire Reports
France deployed scores more soldiers to Ivory Coast, bolstering a Western military machine of U.S. Special Forces, the Foreign Legion and others ahead of threatened full-scale war between loyalist and rebel forces.
West African envoys sought rebel leaders to try to negotiate a peace deal. Rebel officials, pushing south since a Sept. 19 rebellion, said French forces were all that barred their drive to the country’s capital, Yamoussoukro.
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