Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard graduate was among a group of Peace Corps volunteers held captive for two days in Uganda by order of its president, Gen. Idi Amin...
...O.A.U. headquarters shifted to Cairo from Addis Ababa, which he maintains "is the capital of Zionism in Africa." The plan was referred to a study committee-a typical maneuver-and this year's protest against Israel's aggression was toughened only slightly. Uganda's General Idi Amin failed to win any quicker resolution of his complaints that Tanzania was encouraging his foe, ex-President Milton Obote to overthrow...
...months ago, Uganda's mercurial President General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada packed off all the members of his Cabinet for 30 days of "vacation." They were exhausted, he said, and needed a rest. Then he extended the enforced leave for another 30 days, announcing that the ministers' permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those...
...soon became clear that Amin had more than military discipline, or scrambled eggs, on his mind. Radio Uganda brightly described all hands as "looking happy and fresh after their two-month leave," but their smiles soon faded. Big Daddy made the mildly ominous announcement that not only would the ministers not return to their old jobs right away but that "some won't return at all, and 98% of those who make it will not go to their former ministries." Amin added that the permanent secretaries had done "very well" in the ministers' absence and "provided brilliant ideas...
...Amin saved his most extraordinary performance of the week for later. After dismissing his chastised guests, he composed a rambling cable to Richard Nixon, who had ordered a phase-out of U.S. aid to Uganda in response to the expulsion of the country's Asians. "My dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course...