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Gaddafi's reputation as an international meddler was firmly established in 1977, when he intervened to support the nightmare dictatorship of Uganda's Idi Amin. He has invaded Chad twice, prompting French President Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement in 1984 to withdraw each nation's forces. France did so, but Gaddafi promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined...
...membership is scattered. Ferdinand Marcos will evidently settle in Hawaii. "Baby Doc" Duvalier has moved to the French Riviera, at least for the time being. Uganda's Idi Amin has managed to make himself all but invisible in Saudi Arabia. The Central African Republic's Emperor Bokassa has found a home near Paris. And so on. But such men are rarely welcomed, and never feel at home, in the places where the jet stream has deposited them. They keep out of sight...
...coalition of opposition groups, aided by neighboring Tanzania, finally overthrew Amin in 1979 but then fell to bickering among themselves. Obote eventually emerged to lead the country, but the bloodshed continued. Last July the army, led by General Tito Okello, ousted Obote...
Museveni, who had studied economics and politics at the University of Dar es Salaam, returned in exile to Tanzania during the Amin era. He came back to serve as Defense Minister following Amin's fall but withdrew into the bush five years ago, when Obote won an election that was widely regarded as rigged. There, Museveni says, he founded his National Resistance Army with just 27 men and rifles. Since then, his forces have grown to 8,500 well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin...
...government troops to lay down their arms. Many former army soldiers retreated to the northern part of the country, assaulting and looting along the way. General Okello reportedly sought refuge in Sudan, where he is said to be planning a counterattack. From his own haven in Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin charged the new government with slaughtering civilians and claimed that he had urged his followers inside Uganda to resist Museveni. The old guard may be gone, but it will probably be a while before its influence passes from the scene in Uganda...