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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--President Raul Alfonsin announced yesterday he had obtained the surrender of dozens of armed rebel soldiers after meeting with their leader at the military base where they had been holed up for three days...
...could not be immediately determined if the rebel troops had actually left the base, but Alfonsin said they would...
...avoid any shedding of blood, I have given instructions to the army commanders that they will not proceed with repression [firing at the rebel troops] and today we all give thanks to God," said Alfonsin at the Buenos Aires rally...
Ricks, who also attended college with Kohlberg,remembered him as with Kohlberg, remembered him as"kind of a rebel, one who would stand up forsomething if integrity was at issue...
Gaddafi's military campaign began to sag last October, when he had a falling-out with Goukouni Oueddei, a former Chadian President and leader of rebel forces battling the present government. That rupture prompted most of the guerrillas to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials...