Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...F.N.L.A. and UNITA are in uneasy alliance against M.P.L.A. The three longstanding Angolan liberation movements have been so violently divided that no one has been able to form a new national government to accept independence. The Organization of African Unity, under the prod of Uganda's Idi Amin, claimed that last-minute efforts had forced a coalition, but no one believed the hollow boast...
...Sadat was imprisoned by the British from 1942 to 1944 for collaborating with the Germans. He was jailed again from 1946 to 1949 for having allegedly participated in the assassination of Finance Minister Amin Osman Pasha...
...Accident. The Africans were angered by a weekend speech that Moynihan gave at the AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco. There, he sharply denounced the bizarre anti-U.S. address that Amin had delivered to the General Assembly two days earlier, in which Big Daddy had also demanded "the extinction of Israel as a state" (TIME, Oct. 13). Ignoring diplomatic niceties, Moynihan acerbically noted that "it's no accident, I fear, that this 'racist murderer' -as one of our leading newspapers [the New York Times) called him this morning-is head of the Organization of African Unity...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...
...from being contrite, the U.S. slugged back. In Moynihan's defense, U.S. Delegate Clarence Mitchell, an official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compared Amin-who brutally expelled at least 50,000 Asians in 1972 for racial as well as political reasons and has had killed anywhere from 25,000 to 250,000 Ugandans who opposed his dictatorial regime-to Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, Moynihan shrugged off the furor at the U.N., insisting that Amin had started it when "he slandered and blasphemed the American people by saying that we let the country...