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ids““ Tuesday, February 18, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation Libyan retaliatory strike spurs action France sends military aid to Chad Problem Pregnancy? we listen, we care, we help Free pregnancy tests concerned counselors Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service \\ Were local! ♦ 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. Hotline 823-CARE 0 0 In n n «► <► n n n n u The Battalion Number One in Aggieland B Associated Press PARIS - France sent troops and Janes to Chad Monday to support IPrcsident Hissene Habre’s govern ment against Libyan-backed rebels after an air strike on the airport at til’Djaniena, capital of the African country. BDefense Minister Paul Quiles an nounced the deployment soon after ■ reported that one Soviet-built Li byan Tupolev-22 jet bombed the Ijamena airport runway about 7 Monday. On Sunday, French lanes bombed an airField at a Li- ^fcn-built rebel base in the north former French colony. The Libyan news agency JANA said in Tripoli that the N’Djamena raid was carried out by the “air force” of rebel forces in Chad trying to overthrow Hahre and was in re sponse to the French raid. The rebels are not known to have their own air force, but the Libyans have Tupolev jets in their arsenal of 535 warplanes. Quiles said damage at N’Djamena airport was “minimal,” and no one was hurt.'JANA claimed the strike “rendered it unusable.” A dispatch from Paris by the So viet news agency Tass said Monday that “an explosive situation has de veloped in the center of Africa as a result of France’s growing armed in tervention in Chad.” Libya accused the United States Monday of being behind French President Francois Mitterrand’s de cision to intervene in Chad. A high-ranking Libyan official, who insisted on anonymity, told re porters in Tripoli that “Mitterrand is a pawn in the hands of (President) Reagan.” Quiles said three French war planes landed at N’Djamena Mon day. France has kept 1,500 troops in the Central African Republic, poised to return to Chad, since signing a mutual withdrawal agreement with Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy in the fall of 1984. France says Libya never honored the pact. About 200 French troops were sent to Chad over the weekend, the Defense Ministry reported. France says the Libyans have 4,500 troops in northern Chad -and the rebels have another.4,000, facing about 5,000 Chadian government troops. FREE YAMAHA T-SHIRTS WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY PACKAGE OF GUITAR STRINGS KEyboARd Center Inc. 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But NASA spokesman Hugh Har ris said it probably would be at least Wednesday before a determination is made on whether components of the booster have been spotted. Recovery of rocket sections could provide a vital clue to what caused the tragedy because NASA launch photographs show a puff of black smoke bursting from the booster near a seal on liftoff and a tongue of flame spewing from the same area 59 seconds into the flight. Challenger’s fuel tank exploded 73 seconds into the flight. A presidential commission investi gating the accident has focused on the right-hand booster as one of the leading theories for the shuttle’s ex plosion. The crew of the four-man re search submarine Johnson Sea-Link 2 reported Sunday it had photo graphed objects believed to be sec tions of the 149-foot rocket 1,200 feet down in the Atlantic about 45 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral. NASA said the submarine’s me chanical arm also recovered a few small components which were being studied on the sub’s mother ship, the Seaward Johnson. Officials said the photographs and videotapes were brought back to the Kennedy Space Center for initial study and then were flown to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which oversees NA SA’s shuttle engine work. The pho tos are being compared with pictures of the rocket taken before the Jan. 28 launching. The Sea-Link 2 crew was taking additional photos Mon day. 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If the law’s constitutionality is upheld by the Supreme Court and Congress doesn’t subsequently mod ify it, some law enforcement areas could suffer cuts ranging to 63 per cent by 1990, the study said. The reason for this, it said, is that Congress, while shielding some sen sitive programs like Social Security from the Gramm-Rudman cuts, ne glected to make provisions under the law for fully funding some crit ical law enforcement programs. Automatic cuts triggered under Gramm-Rudman would chop away at law enforcement programs as much as they would other programs. But the study assumed that Con gress would not permit a reduction in prison guards, border agents, or in the Secret Service force protecting the president and other high admin istration officials. Mzz&ixm For pizza out it’s Pizza Inn.' Buffet Special Noon: 11-2 Monday-Friday Evening: 6-8:30 Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday AH the Pizza, Spaghetti & Salad 2 g you can eat $3 413 S. 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