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Four thousand French troops are caught up in a civil war in the Ivory Coast, once part of France's colonial empire.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Four thousand French troops are caught up in a civil war in the Ivory Coast, once part of France's colonial empire. Whatever else they might be doing, they have stirred up a hornet's nest. The mobs are out, and French and other expatriates have had to be evacuated. French women may have been raped. On Radio Vatican, Bernard Cardinal Agre, archbishop of Abidjan, claimed that he had just come from the hospitals ...

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