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...free and democratic society in which he now lived. They also received financial help. A local money changer says he cashed checks from America for sums that ran as high as four figures. "Mohammed wanted to go to the U.S.A. to make money and help me," says his father Amin Abdul-raheem Salameh, a retired Jordanian army officer. "He said, 'I am ready to work in America as a toilet cleaner or garbage collector rather than stay here.' " It is a decision Salameh may now regret...
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There has always been an understandable tendency among African Americans to dismiss bad news about Africa as racist lies. During the late '70s, for example, a certain civil rights leader tried to persuade black American professionals to lend support to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Reports that Amin had slaughtered tens of thousands of his people were brushed aside as inventions of the racist Western propaganda machine. The truth, of course, is that until Amin was chased into exile by Julius Nyerere's Tanzania, he was one of the most murderous tyrants the world has known. His country, once...
That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
...until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such occasion in 1977, while he was writing a crash cover on Uganda's Idi Amin, that Bill's wife Genevieve Wilson-Smith, then a TIME reporter-researcher, gave birth to their daughter Caroline...