Africa group seeks to get Chad rebel to OK pact

The Organization of African Unity, which failed to end Chad's civil war, will send delegates to the capital to try to get rebel Defense Minister Hissein Habre to sign a proposed peace pact. An end to the eight-month conflict had seemed in sight, with Chad President Goukhouni Woddei and four other West African heads of state expecting Mr. Habre to subscribe to a Dec. 15 cease-fire. But the defense minister said he would not sign unless his rival, President Goukhouni, renounced military aid from Libya.

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