Word: northerns
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...officious tolerance for Louisiana's sweet hypocrisy any day. "As long as you make me feel as though I've got as much right as you've got, fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled in the South, the Northern cities they left behind have long ago abandoned any pretense of racial detente. In Barnwell, Scott, the retired construction worker, says he follows TV news reports about the way people up North are "fighting and don't want to live here and don't want to live there. To me, there...
...Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment for Deby's army, stirred fears that Gaddafi is poised to use Chad as a base to project his influence throughout the region...
Even by the convoluted standard of North African politics, Deby and Gaddafi are strange bedfellows. As adviser for security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...
...amity between Deby and Gaddafi does not seem to extend to the Aozou Strip, a mineral-rich area in northern Chad that Gaddafi claims belongs to Libya. Deby made it clear last week that if necessary he will fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands. That may encourage Gaddafi to assist yet another rebel army with the aim of overthrowing yet another government...
...Saddam is not offered anything that appeals to him, there is the real chance he will opt for a partial and unilateral pullout, yanking his forces back to the northern third of Kuwait, which he considers part of Iraq's Basra province. That would free up Kuwait's main population centers and oil fields but would leave four major oil patches, plus Kuwait's part of Rumaila -- which together account for about 10% of Kuwait's production -- under Saddam's control. While the U.S. and its allies could still invade to force Saddam all the way out, popular support...