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...student of history, I watch with great interest the emerging of new African states. I see Uganda's Amin, Angola's bloody civil war, and now Malawi's brutal persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses [Dec. 1]. I am afraid to look for what will emerge next...
...threatening" tactics had made face-saving compromise impossible. One European ambassador reported that three African delegates claimed they could not even abstain in the vote for fear of appearing to knuckle under to an American ambassador who had called the Organization of African Unity's chairman, President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, a "racist murderer." Moynihan feels that without a strong stand the vote might have been worse. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog agrees...
Tippling in the ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up - a cold Coke...
Most of the countries that voted for this declaration are also racist, Chomsky said. He added that it is laughable when U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan calls Ugandan President I di Amin a "racist murderer...
Public Support. In Moynihan's case, the problem was his aggressive defense of U.S. democratic principles against a hostile Third World majority at the U.N. Since becoming ambassador in June, he offended African diplomats by correctly describing Ugandan President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as a "racist murderer" and indirectly criticizing other African nations because Amin is head of the Organization of African Unity. More recently, Moynihan antagonized Third World ambassadors with threats of retribution for supporting the U.N. General Assembly's resolution equating Zionism with racism...