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National Dignity. Giscard was joined in diplomatic battle by British Prime Minister James Callaghan. Before flying to Washington last week-aboard a chartered British Airways Concorde-he told the House of Commons: "It would be a great misfortune for the world's finest aircraft not to be allowed to land in one of the world's finest cities." At the White House and at luncheons with House and Senate foreign relations committees, Callaghan pressed hard for the Concorde's admission. Aides said he was "throwing all his prestige" behind the jet for "national dignity" rather than mere...
...murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard a plane and sending them home. In the end he changed his mind. But, as a leading Ugandan exile in Tanzania noted, "just wait...
...Having spent four years as the Defense Department's $42,000-a-year director of defense research, Malcolm Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
What would the U.S. do if a real crisis developed? The State Department set up an operations center, and the Pentagon ordered the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and five other naval vessels, which had been cruising in the Indian Ocean, to stand by off the East African coast. The ships were not really equipped for an airborne rescue operation-together they carried fewer than 200 Marines-but Washington hoped that their presence would have an inhibiting influence on Amin. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told reporters: "The President will take whatever steps he thinks are necessary and proper...
...from Entebbe airport that the recently formed Uganda Airlines is now operating, with aircraft purchased from the U.S. Bob Coder is a ground engineer helping to keep those planes flying...