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Whether by accident or design, Uganda's President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada seems bent on making his country the world's most unfathomable nation. At the center of the puzzle, as always, are the maneuvers of "Big Daddy" himself. Last week he managed to be even more mysterious than usual. For four days, Amin simply disappeared from view. By the time he resurfaced, by way of reassuring announcements on Radio Uganda, all sorts of stories had floated that there had been an unsuccessful attempt on his life and a subsequent bloodbath by his dread State Research Bureau...
...rumors began when Radio Uganda announced that Amin would attend a celebration in the country's northwestern region; no further mention of the festivities was made in following days. The anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...
...bizarre threat by Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin to upstage the Jubilee by crashing the Commonwealth Conference, which opened last week, never materialized. Amin had been advised that his presence would be "inappropriate" because of his regime's brutal tyranny. Then Radio Uganda suddenly announced that Amin was on his way to London, setting off a flurry of rumors that his plane was circling various airports in Europe looking for a place to land. It turned out to be a hoax; Big Daddy never left Uganda...
...coterie of officers who finally deposed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974. Today, at 39, he has emerged as the top man in Ethiopia's 60-member junta, largely by pressing a campaign of arrests and killings that rivals even Ugandan Field Marshal Idi Amin's considerable efforts in this area. Mostly, Mengistu's efforts have been aimed at half a dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea, a desert province along the Red Sea coast. While cracking down at home, Mengistu-like other African leftist leaders...
...another, some of the French planes that were involved in the airlift of the Moroccans have been shifted to bases in Senegal and Chad; they can return to Zaïre on short notice. Then there is also the possibility of reinforcements from neighboring Uganda, whose mercurial dictator, Idi Amin Dada, suddenly turned up in Kinshasa last week to assure le Guide of military help if needed. Mobutu's government is gradually winning moral backing from other African states. If there is one issue on which African leaders seem ready to unite, it is in defense of national territorial...