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...himself embroiled in his first major diplomatic brawl since becoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations three months ago. Publicly squared off against him initially were U.N. representatives of numerous African states, who were furious at what they regarded as his rude attack on Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada and, by implication, on other black African leaders as well...
...Accident. The Africans were angered by a weekend speech that Moynihan gave at the AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco. There, he sharply denounced the bizarre anti-U.S. address that Amin had delivered to the General Assembly two days earlier, in which Big Daddy had also demanded "the extinction of Israel as a state" (TIME, Oct. 13). Ignoring diplomatic niceties, Moynihan acerbically noted that "it's no accident, I fear, that this 'racist murderer' -as one of our leading newspapers [the New York Times) called him this morning-is head of the Organization of African Unity...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...
Decked out in his field marshal's regalia, Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada last week made what must rank as one of the most bizarre debuts ever seen and heard in the United Nations General Assembly. In a prepared address, read by his U.N. delegate, Amin charged that the U.S. had been "colonized by Zionists" and called for "the extinction of Israel as a state." At one point or another, Amin scourged the British (for the "terrible situation" in Ulster), the CIA ("a murder squad") and American blacks (they are responsible for their own "perpetual subjugation"). What...
With an entourage of 40, Uganda's eccentric and frequently brutal President, General Idi Amin Dada, set off on his long-planned tour of Europe. First stop: Castel Gandolfo, Pope Paul's summer residence outside Rome. Though Big Daddy showed up 20 minutes late for the audience, Pontiff and President met for more than an hour and discussed some of the problems facing Catholic missionaries to Uganda. Chief among them was Amin himself, who has restricted the entry of the clergymen into his country. Afterward, while acting as host at a cocktail party for 160 at the Grand...