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...years after Idi Amin, no peace for a divided land...
...Uganda's newly elected President Milton Obote pledged his government to a policy of national reconciliation, he stirred hopes that his brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote...
...antigovernment guerrillas ambushed a succession of army convoys and police stations, slaying 120 soldiers and police. The army responded with a vengeance. In raids throughout the capital, soldiers slaughtered 65 Kampala residents, including a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and dumped the bodies in a forest outside the city that Amin's goon squad used to dispose of its victims...
President Karmal, 51, whose political career has been checkered by purges, imprisonment and exile, comes across as a moderate who has little stomach for the intrigue that characterized the regimes of his two predecessors, Noor Mohammed Taraki and Hafizullah Amin. He said that his government would "warmly welcome" the scheduled visit of U.N. Special Representative Javier Pérez de Cuellar, who was due in Kabul as part of an ongoing search for a possible international settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. In that regard, Karmal also said that he was interested in bilateral talks with Pakistan, but, he added bitterly...
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...