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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000302640046-0: U.S. SEES CHAD AS A PORTENT OF QADDAFI'S AMBITION

ST Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302640046-0 ARTICLE AP/ 14ARZ ON PAGE NEW YORK TIMES 19 August 1983 U.S. Sees Chad as a Portent of ? By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Special to The New Ycet Times , WASHINGTON, Aug. 18? Reagan Administration officials said today that They regarded the conflict in Chad as a major test of wills with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader. They as-sert that Colonel Qaddafi had made no effort to disguise his plan of controlling Chad and of eventually unifying all African Moslems under the Libyan banner. Because o…