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When he seized power nearly two years ago, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was not openly hostile to Uganda's foreign residents. But lately he has been vowing to make his country "the first genuinely black African state, " and it is now painfully clear what he means. If Big Daddy has his way, the only people allowed to live permanently in Uganda will be blacks...
...Amin has already driven 26,000 Asians into exile. He has ordered the remaining 1,100 Asians, who are Ugandan citizens, to abandon their homes and businesses in the towns and become farmers in the bush country. He has decreed that national sports teams must be Africanized, which means, for example, that star Asian players will be dropped from the Uganda cricket team...
...Amin has also announced that all "foreign-owned businesses," including 28 British-owned tea plantations, will be placed in the hands of black Ugandans. Last week he took over the country's only English-language daily, the Uganda Argus, partly because a majority of the shares were owned by Britons and Kenyans but also because its editors had had the temerity to print a story about a sugar shortage. The paper is now the Voice of Uganda...
Until now, Amin has been too busy getting rid of the Asians to pay much attention to Uganda's small white population, which consists primarily of some 700 Americans, many of them missionaries, and a British community that has dwindled from 7,000 to 3,500 in the past two months. Recently Amin announced the expulsion of 55 of the country's 1,293 Catholic missionaries, as well as three clerics of other denominations. Amin claimed that they were mercenaries in disguise who had entered Uganda with firearms and military uniforms concealed beneath their priestly robes. Among these...
...Amin will address a mass meeting of Uganda's remaining British residents. After the British government recently canceled a $24 million loan to Uganda and announced the phasing out of a technical-assistance program, Amin promised "very drastic" measures-perhaps a break in relations and the expulsion of Britons as "imperialists." He also boasted that the French government had promised to increase its aid to Uganda to offset much of what the British were taking away. In Paris, a spokesman for French President Georges Pompidou denied that any such promise had been made, adding that "France is approaching...