Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side," declared Uganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, on the eve of a gigantic celebration to mark the fourth anniversary of the coup d 'état that had brought him to power. He added: "Even the most powerful witchcraft cannot hurt me." It is growing more and more difficult to gainsay Big Daddy. There have been at least a dozen known attempts to overthrow him, six in 1974 alone. But the burly Amin has somehow survived...
...three-hour anniversary ceremony at Kampala's Nakivubo football stadium held late last month was as bizarre and ludicrous as its sponsor. Along with the traditional drums and dancers, the center of attention was Amin's "Black Watch," a motley assortment of Ugandan soldiers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts, tunics, diced glengarries and plastic sporrans decorated with pied crow feathers. A dozen Africans puffed Scotland the Brave on bagpipes-a measure of Amin's admiration for the Scots, which dates back to his days in the British army...
...football helmet garnished with a feather. The organizers hoped to raise $15,000 but, as one lonely Yakima surveying the shambles said, "There are many bad spirits here." ∎ With a cobra's speed, a jaguar's ferocity and the imagination of a Lenny Bruce, General Idi Amin Dado ("Big Daddy"), President of Uganda, has sacked his Foreign Minister, Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34. He accused her of making love in a toilet at Paris' Orly Airport with an unknown European as she was on her way home from...
...atrocity that some observers described as a minor act of genocide, the ruling Tutsi tribe in the African republic of Burundi in 1972 put down a rebellion by massacring some 75,000 members of the country's Hutu majority. That same year, Uganda's burly dictator Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada forcibly expelled 26,000 of his country's Asian residents and expropriated their possessions. Last week Burundi and Uganda-along with other notably humane nations like the Soviet Union-were among the 91 members of the United Nations that voted to suspend South Africa from...
Died. Haj Amin el Husseini, 80, fanatic former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; of a heart ailment; in Beirut. Haj Amin, whose elfin, almost angelic appearance concealed a wily, often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile...