Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. Until now, though, there has been little solid documentation of just how bad things are in his East African nation. Last week the prestigious International Commission of Jurists issued one of the most scathing reports it has produced in 22 years of investigating official injustice from Turkey to South Africa. After examining evidence for three years the jurists concluded that Uganda has seen "a total breakdown of the rule...
...wife's lot can be unhappy if she has been cast off by Uganda's temperamental President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dado, 48. Earlier this year Amin divorced three of his four wives. Last month Mama Malyamu, 36, Amin's first wife and mother of six of his 14 children, was charged with smuggling, fined $95 and held in jail for two weeks. Last week Kay Amin, mother of four, was seized in Kampala, allegedly in possession of a submachine gun and ammunition. According to Radio Uganda, a contrite Kay was escorted to Parliament...
...newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during the Nasser era because he opposed the regime...
...Egyptian President gave him a tongue lashing that sent him scurrying back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under questioning, Sareya admitted that last summer he had a long discussion with Gaddafi in Libya. These revelations triggered a Cairo press campaign against Gaddafi and led Ali Amin, editor of Cairo's influential newspaper Al Ahram, to call the Libyan ruler a "village idiot...
...before, he had divorced three of his four Moslem wives: Senior Wife Miriam, sister of a former Foreign Minister, who fell out with Amin and fled the country last year; Second Wife Kay, a Lugbara and a cousin of Lieut. Colonel Ondoga, and Third Wife Nora, related to a cousin of ex-President Obote. The remaining wife, Madina, Amin says, was given to him as a gift in 1971; she apparently has no political ties to any Amin enemy...