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...Harvard graduate was among a group of Peace Corps volunteers held captive for two days in Uganda by order of its president, Gen. Idi Amin...
...Amin, who came to power by a military coup in January 1971, claimed that the Americans might be either military mercenaries or "even Zionists." When the Peace Corps' chartered jet landed Sunday at Uganda's international airport in Entebbe, Amin ordered that the volunteers be detained...
...Amin had said he would determine the validity of their mission before he proclaimed any further action...
...O.A.U. headquarters shifted to Cairo from Addis Ababa, which he maintains "is the capital of Zionism in Africa." The plan was referred to a study committee-a typical maneuver-and this year's protest against Israel's aggression was toughened only slightly. Uganda's General Idi Amin failed to win any quicker resolution of his complaints that Tanzania was encouraging his foe, ex-President Milton Obote to overthrow...
...Amin saved his most extraordinary performance of the week for later. After dismissing his chastised guests, he composed a rambling cable to Richard Nixon, who had ordered a phase-out of U.S. aid to Uganda in response to the expulsion of the country's Asians. "My dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course...