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Tanzania's drive against "that fool"nears Idi Amin 's capital
...scene at Uganda's Entebbe airport told it all. Abandoning their efforts to save the embattled regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada, Soviet and Iraqi advisers lined up to board Russian transports that had been hurriedly dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week...
Predicted a Western diplomat in Kenya: "It's the end." Indeed, Amin was facing his worst crisis yet. His Soviet-supplied military machine, which once boasted 20,000 troops and a flock of MiG fighters, was falling apart under a plodding but determined advance by a mere 4,000 Tanzanian troops and a miscellaneous collection of Ugandan exiles. Since early February, this force had been moving north from the border that Amin barged across last fall in an effort to buck up his tough-guy image by seizing a piece of Tanzanian territory. For weeks Amin's regime...
...rapid collapse of Amin's rule began a week ago when long-range Tanzanian artillery pounded Mbarara and Masaka, garrison towns held by what were supposed to be Amin's elite forces, the Suicide Regiment and the Simba (Lion) Battalion. These troops not only surrendered; some even joined the anti-Amin forces. Late last week Tanzanian units and various anti-Amin groups began pushing north of Masaka toward Kampala, 80 miles away. But a Ugandan tank force managed to retake the garrison town of Tororo, near the Kenyan border, which had briefly fallen to the rebels...
TIME Reporter Tony Avirgan interviewed one Ugandan guerrilla, a tall, sturdily built man who calls himself Faki Kuli, in Tanzania. Kuli, 25, recalls that his father, a sergeant-major in the Ugandan army, his mother and two brothers were killed by Amin's soldiers during a barracks purge in 1974. Kuli escaped to Kenya and joined a dissident group. Eventually he re-entered Uganda and began to take part in sabotage activities; he helped blow up the fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within...