France sends more troops to embattled Ivory Coast

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- France deployed scores more soldiers to Ivory Coast on Tuesday, bolstering a Western military machine of U.S. special forces, the Foreign Legion and others ahead of threatened full-scale war between loyalist and rebel forces.

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