Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some other foreign policy areas. Only 39% feel he should push harder for black majority rule in South Africa if by doing so he jeopardizes exports to the U.S. of essential minerals like gold and copper. Only 42% believe he should criticize foreign leaders-like Uganda Dictator Idi Amin-if this threatens the safety of Americans living under their rule. On the other hand, just 29% of those polled support Carter's decision to continue foreign aid to countries that suppress human rights but are essential to U.S. national defense. Half of the people surveyed would...
...third time in one night, McCarthy was responding to a question about the kind of job he thought Carter was doing. Then someone asked about Idi Amin; someone else about Carter's letter to Sakharov. The same kinds of questions it seems everybody asks politicians these days. I suppose these are the only kinds of questions people are concerned about these days...
...Daddy's Revenge. Arab and African leaders alike were embarrassed by the conspicuous presence of Uganda's Field Marshal and President for Life Idi Amin Dada, who at times appeared in full-dress uniform with row upon row of decorations covering his awesome chest. Throughout the conference he was ignored as much as possible, but Big Daddy got his revenge. Just as Syria's President Hafez Assad was taking the rostrum to speak, Amin temporarily stole the show by speeding off, amid motorcycle sirens, to give a rambling and often incoherent press conference at which he declared...
...delegates agreed to set up the nucleus of a permanent Afro-Arab organization and to hold a summit conference again in 1980. Both Uganda and Sudan offered their capitals as the site. Amin's Kampala is not quite what the Afro-Arabs had in mind. But, as one Arab League official put it, "a lot can happen in three years...
...position is well known on Uganda. I have been speaking about it for six years-ever since Amin came to power. Now that others are beginning to see what is happening there, it is time for me to shut...