Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Amin promised free elections and declared that Obote could come home to contest them if he wanted to; Obote wisely stayed away. A few months later, Amin won the support of the Baganda people by bringing the body of King Freddie back to Uganda for burial. But by early 1972, to divert attention from Uganda's growing economic problems, Amin was threatening to invade neighboring Tanzania...
...following year he began his campaign to expel from Uganda 55,000 Indians and Pakistanis, most of them small businessmen and shopkeepers who constituted the most stable portion of Ugandan society. Three years later, when a British resident of Uganda, Denis Hills, called Amin a "village tyrant" in an unpublished manuscript, Big Daddy threatened to execute him by firing squad but eventually released him after James Callaghan, then Britain's Foreign Secretary, flew to Uganda at Amin's insistence to negotiate for Hills' life...
...months that followed, Amin's behavior grew more and more erratic and menacing. He praised Adolf Hitler and promised to build a memorial to the Nazi leader in Kampala. He arrived at a party in a sedan chair carried by four local British businessmen who, explained Amin genially, were thus demonstrating "the new white man's burden." He wrongfully accused his former Foreign Minister, the beautiful Princess Elisabeth Bagaya, of sexual indiscretions. After the dramatic Israeli raid on Entebbe airport last July, an angry Amin ordered the summary execution of several air-traffic controllers, policemen and other airport...
...beginning, the Israelis were among his closest allies, but by early 1973 they had grave reservations about his stability. Israel's former Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, recalls a dinner meeting with Amin at the home of former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv...
...Amin: I would like 24 Phantom airplanes...