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...fighting increased, Premier Amin Hafez gave in to Franjieh's demands and declared a state of emergency, effectively giving the mostly Christian army control over the country. The next day, as Lebanese jet fighter-bombers joined the fray for the second week in a row, Hafez resigned. A Moslem, he had been in office only 13 days and had replaced Saeb Salam, another Moslem, who resigned after last month's Israeli attacks...
...months ago, Uganda's mercurial President General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada packed off all the members of his Cabinet for 30 days of "vacation." They were exhausted, he said, and needed a rest. Then he extended the enforced leave for another 30 days, announcing that the ministers' permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those...
...soon became clear that Amin had more than military discipline, or scrambled eggs, on his mind. Radio Uganda brightly described all hands as "looking happy and fresh after their two-month leave," but their smiles soon faded. Big Daddy made the mildly ominous announcement that not only would the ministers not return to their old jobs right away but that "some won't return at all, and 98% of those who make it will not go to their former ministries." Amin added that the permanent secretaries had done "very well" in the ministers' absence and "provided brilliant ideas...
With the streets eerily deserted except for government troops, Lebanese Premier Amin Hafez, accompanied by three Cabinet ministers and ten bodyguards, met with Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who had 50 armed guerrillas with him. During the night, on neutral ground at the Makassed Hospital, they worked out a cease-fire agreement under which the army hostages were released. Before dawn, however, heavy firing broke out anew at a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, across St. George's Bay. Soon sporadic shooting resumed in other areas and spread well beyond Beirut...
From the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, three Somali envoys ventured forth to survey the battlefront. They found nothing whatever happening. Finally, with characteristic panache, General Amin himself toured the border and announced proudly that everything was "peaceful and calm" once more. Back in Dar, a Tanzanian spokesman summed up the wole affair as "utter nonsense." To which watchers of Amin might add "Amen...