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More than 16 hours after the fighting broke out, Radio Uganda announced that Obote had been overthrown. Then, after a musical interlude (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), it introduced his successor: Major General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, 46, a huge (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) army careerist who once reigned as Uganda's heavyweight boxing champion and has been armed-forces chief of staff since...
...office. A word from him, and a journalist or foreign businessman gets an interview with the U.A.R. President. When a research employee was jailed for reporting critically on Egypt's economy, Heikal not only got the man freed and the report released but also forced Intelligence Chief Amin Huweidi to write a letter-to-the-editor explaining why he had tried to suppress the report in the first place. Lamented Huweidi later: "Centers of power are supposed to have been abolished, but one big power center obviously remains." Even Heikal's detractors readily concede that next to Nasser...
Baothist Brinksmen. Most Syrians are fed up with the Baathists and tired of the endless propaganda barrages. Both at home and abroad, the trio of ruling Baathist generals, led by Salah Jadid, find themselves with more foes than just the Israelis. In Lebanon, exiled Syrian politicians, including former Premier Amin Hafez-whom the Baathists overthrew last year-meet regularly to plot a return to power. Jadid has lately been at odds with the civilians through whom he rules. Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, who is believed to favor a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Israel, recently walked angrily...
...trained physicians: Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36; Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, 37; and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous, 36. But the man with the real power is Major General Salah Jadid, 40, a career officer who was sacked from his chief-of-staff job by former Chief of State Amin Hafez late in 1965, then led the Feb. 23, 1966 coup that threw Hafez into Damascus' dank Mazza Prison...
...goods on Amin, the police planted intelligence agents among his servants and bugged his two apartments and his black Buick limousine. When they arrested the portly publisher 13 months ago, during a lunch with Odell in Amin's seaside villa, the police claimed that they found 20 pages of Odell's handwritten notes on a table near by. Odell was released because of his diplomatic immunity, and immediately flew back to Washington "for reassignment." "I am innocent," Amin insisted last week. "I have faith in my country, and history will reveal the truth." As far as Nasser...