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...When the Soviets tried to pressure Uganda, the U.S.S.R.'s major African ally, to back the M.P.L.A., they were scathingly rebuffed. Uganda's mercurial dictator Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin asserted: "The Soviet Union must not dictate to me what I should...
Some of the nations that voted for the Zionism resolution last week were scarcely qualified to cast the first stone. Idi Amin's Uganda is a notorious example: Asian citizens were summarily expelled and at least 50,000 Ugandans of various tribes have been murdered while Amin has promoted fellow Moslems and his own Kakwa tribesmen...
...F.N.L.A. and UNITA are in uneasy alliance against M.P.L.A. The three longstanding Angolan liberation movements have been so violently divided that no one has been able to form a new national government to accept independence. The Organization of African Unity, under the prod of Uganda's Idi Amin, claimed that last-minute efforts had forced a coalition, but no one believed the hollow boast...
...Sadat was imprisoned by the British from 1942 to 1944 for collaborating with the Germans. He was jailed again from 1946 to 1949 for having allegedly participated in the assassination of Finance Minister Amin Osman Pasha...
...from being contrite, the U.S. slugged back. In Moynihan's defense, U.S. Delegate Clarence Mitchell, an official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compared Amin-who brutally expelled at least 50,000 Asians in 1972 for racial as well as political reasons and has had killed anywhere from 25,000 to 250,000 Ugandans who opposed his dictatorial regime-to Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, Moynihan shrugged off the furor at the U.N., insisting that Amin had started it when "he slandered and blasphemed the American people by saying that we let the country...