Word: amin
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Still, there were catcalls and jeers as the argument raged on. "Is this the end of the revolution?" asked Amin Nasseri, an opponent of the bill. "Don't we say there is no difference between Carter and Reagan?" Hassan Ayat, an Islamic fundamentalist, raised a flurry of detailed questions in objecting to the pending agreement. The tart-tongued speaker, Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, asked anyone who agreed with Ayat to stand up. No one did. Scoffed one supporter of the legislation: "This Mr. Ayat thinks he is the scholar of all the parliaments in the world. The things...
When Apollo Milton Obote, 56, was sworn in for a second term as President of Uganda last week, he gained an unusual opportunity for an African leader: a second chance to rule his country. It was Dictator Idi Amin Dada who had ousted him in a military coup nine years ago. The challenge facing Obote is immense. Uganda, once known as the "pearl of Africa "for its productive agriculture, fine schools and superbly equipped hospitals, is today a nation in ruins. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports...
Election-related turmoil in the towns paled next to some of the bloodshed that has ravaged the countryside. In September about 1,000 exiled former members of Idi Amin's army re-entered West Nile province and killed several hundred Ugandan soldiers in hit-and-run attacks. Ugandan reinforcements, and several thousand of the Tanzanian troops who have remained in Uganda since overthrowing Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum...
...runs into a lot of trouble, he probably will revert to type." That would mean going back to the days when Obote suspended the constitution, clapped thousands of opponents in jail without trial and ruled in such a high-handed way the people originally danced in the streets when Amin ousted...
...election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress (U.P.C.), headed by Milton Obote, 56, the shrewd, sometimes ruthless former President who was deposed by Amin...