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Whenever his army begins to get a little restless, Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada announces that an invasion of his East African country is about to take place. The "guerrillas" and "spies" may emanate from neighboring Rwanda, but more often they are said to be coming from Tanzania, which in fact did allow a band of Ugandan rebels to cross the border last September in a vain effort to overthrow Amin. After that, both Tanzania and Uganda agreed to move their troops at least six miles back from their common border...
...were ready to march against him. Nothing happened. Last week a series of war bulletins broadcast by Radio Uganda sounded like the start of a full-scale invasion. First the radio announced that a 3,500-man army of Ugandan exiles, Tanzanian soldiers and some of the Asians whom Amin expelled last year were poised to attack. Next day it reported that the invasion force had crossed the border and reached Masaka, 80 miles from the capital, before being driven back. The radio solemnly warned that a second invasion was expected "within hours," and that all Ugandan soldiers "must...
...ECONOMIC SITUATION: "There is plenty of food. Sugar was short for a time, but now there is plenty of everything. This is a paradise country. The poorest man in Uganda is General Amin. It is better for me to be poor and the people richer...
...RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES: Amin admitted that he has had his differences with neighboring Tanzania and Kenya but added with wide-eyed sincerity, "I have no time to think bad thoughts about Tanzania." As for Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, Big Daddy boasted: "He is one of my best friends." Amin also paid curious tribute to Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, whom he described as "one of the best Prime Ministers. He is like Hitler, really tough. I admire him." As newsmen laughed, Big Daddy corrected himself, "I mean like Churchill...
...PROPHETIC DREAMS: Amin recalled the famous one he had in 1952, when he was a lowly corporal, which advised him that he would some day lead the army and later the country. It also told how and when he would die, he says, but he has never revealed the details. Another dream, last August, inspired him to expel the Asians. Still another told him, somewhat irrelevantly, that Israel "must withdraw from the territories it occupied in the Six-Day War, or they will be liberated before the end of 1974." Asked if he dreams often, Amin replied solemnly: "Only when...