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Every dictator from Brezhnev to Amin will quote Young to justify the continuation and perhaps the tightening of the suppression of his people...
...short speech that Sudan's Numeiri generously described as "vivid and cheerful," Idi Amin Dada of Uganda offered a few of his customary impromptu bons mots. One contained a sardonic ring of truth: "I guess I should say a few words about liberation fronts and the Palestinian people, since you are not at the OAU unless you mention those things...
Powerful nations always use international trade as a political weapon, and America is no exception. Washington has placed restrictions on U.S. companies doing business with countries as ideologically different as Fidel Castro's Cuba, Ian Smith's Rhodesia and Idi Amin's Uganda -often with mixed results and doubtful gains. Last week the U.S. once more waved its trade cudgel, this time against the Soviet Union. And again the move sparked debate over whether it is wise and whether it will work...
...member Cabinet: Air Force Colonel Abdul Kadir became Defense Minister; Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rafi, whose tanks spearheaded the palace assault, was named Public Works Minister; and Major Mohammed Aslam was designated Communications Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining appointees were civilians, among them Hafisullah Amin, a onetime Columbia University student, who was named Foreign Minister, and Amahita Pratebsad, who as Director of Social Welfare becomes Afghanistan's first woman minister. To broaden the new faction's base outside Kabul, a National Revolutionary Council was formed. Taraki will be chairman of the council; the deputy chairman will...
...issue: they were all opposed to the reservation. Former Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd, who had negotiated the treaty with Henry Kissinger, denounced the reservation as "immoral because the strong once again are trying to wield excessive power over the weak." Said a U.S. official in Panama: "Idi Amin couldn't live with this reservation and survive." Aware that his leadership could be at stake, Torrijos complained: "Listening to DeConcini, I ask myself the question: Have we by any chance lost a war? The U.S. didn't demand as much from Japan...