The World - News from Jan. 12, 1987

France’s most senior military officer said that new French attacks in Libyan-held northern Chad are a possibility. The army chief of staff, Gen. Jean Saulnier, who later returned to Paris, told reporters in the Chadian capital of N’Djamena that the conflict there is in a new phase and that France is reviewing the action it should take. Chad has asked for more military aid after an escalation of fighting in the last week. On Wednesday, French planes knocked out a radar system at a Libyan air base in northern Chad. However, Saulnier said that the burden of unifying the country rests with the government of President Hissen Habre.