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...AMIN-THE RISE AND FALL
...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...
Such rhetoric, such icons, in most cases are the tools of control and indoctrination: Khadafy's Green Book and omnipresent portrait, the lying broadcasts and boasts of an Amin or a Radio Moscow, the ridiculous and extravagant nonsense of carefully lettered signs, declaring the socialist progress that has been visited on Kabul. But in a choice few places, and Nicaragua is one, they are the reflection--not the source, the reflection-of something very different. Of unity, not control; of the notion that here is something right and proper that most people can and do support, in the general...
Once Sadat had been killed, a leader of the group, Dr. Amin Youssef el Demeri, asked Abboud Zomor to delay any move to overthrow the government until a more careful plan could be worked out. Whether the conspirators were strong enough to take over at that point is doubtful. In any case, security forces moved in and arrested many of the plotters before they could take further action...
...Minister Shah Mohammed Dost, 52, is a remarkable study in survival. He has been a career diplomat for 25 years, serving King Zahir until he was deposed in 1973, Mohammed Daoud, who was overthrown and killed in 1978, and then a succession of three Communist leaders, Nur Mohammed Taraki, Amin and now Karmal...