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Some notables sent their regrets. Cuba's Fidel Castro said he was busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
...Amnesty International, there have been numerous charges of brutal, disfiguring tortures in Iraq, especially in Baghdad's Kasr-al-Nihaya Prison. In many black African countries, few torture victims survive to tell their stories. In such one-man dictatorships as Francisco Macias Nguema's Equatorial Guinea, Idi Amin's Uganda, Jean Bedel Bokassa's Central African Republic and Ahmed Sekou Toure's Republic of Guinea, unimaginably cruel, capricious and unpredictable tortures are everyday occurrences. In tiny Equatorial Guinea, which has suffered a reign of terror since gaining independence eight years ago, political prisoners have...
...trouble began last February, when Amin claimed a large chunk of Kenyan territory and made veiled threats to take it by force. Then came the raid on Entebbe in July, when Kenya added to Amin's ire by allowing Israel to refuel its planes in Nairobi. After several hundred Kenyans living in Uganda were reported murdered in retaliation, Kenyan border guards began halting the fuel trucks. Amin last week appealed to the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for aid to counter the blockade, which he warned "may force Uganda to resort to desperate action...
Costly Cut. Amin faced pressures from another direction last week as Britain took the unprecedented action of breaking diplomatic ties with its former African protectorate. Relations had been strained since 1972, when Amin drove out thousands of Asians from Uganda. After Amin failed to explain the apparent murder of one of the Entebbe hostages, Mrs. Dora Bloch, a British-Israeli citizen, and then expelled two British diplomats, Whitehall decided on the break. It was a costly move for Britain: Amin relinquished responsibility for compensating British firms and individuals for some $450 million in assets seized by his regime...
...London acting in collusion with Nairobi to invite Amin's overthrow? No, said British officials, pointing out that if Amin were toppled now even more extremist soldiers would probably take over, and Uganda could be plunged into another bloodletting. Nevertheless, given the way matters have been going in Uganda, a coup cannot be ruled...