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Armed with an economics degree, Museveni returned to Kampala in 1970 to serve in the government of Prime Minister Milton Obote, only to flee back to Tanzania when Idi Amin staged a coup a year later. He taught economics while building a guerrilla force among the exiles that eventually joined the Tanzanian army to oust the homicidal Amin in 1979. When Museveni ran for President in 1980, he was humiliated in an election he claims was fraudulent, which put the ruthless Obote back in charge. Museveni took to the bush...
DIED. JOHN AKII-BUA, 47, Uganda's gold-medal-winning Olympic hurdler who, for all his leggy might, could not scale the obstacles erected by Idi Amin's brutal regime; of undisclosed causes; in Kampala, Uganda. At Munich in 1972, Akii-Bua dashed to a record-breaking finish and joyously leaped over the hurdles a second time. He was later barred from international competition by the government and driven into exile...
...going." But the only civil rights leader he names is Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Before his metamorphosis to Republican conservatism during the Nixon era, Innis' main accomplishment was transforming core into a black nationalist cult so extreme it tried to rally support for Idi Amin. I could barely stop giggling...
DIED. MOHAMED AMIN, 53, acclaimed Kenyan photographer whose images of the 1984 famine in Ethiopia shocked the world into providing help; in the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight 961; off the Comoro Islands. Among the others killed: Brian Tetley, 61, a colleague who often wrote the text for Amin's photo books...
After this prolonged exercise in futility, the audience identifies with Amin's anger and irritation with Bobby for trying to coerce a 63-year-old man with a heart condition to take a dangerous drug. Even more amazing is Bobby's impotence in effecting his desired outcome. Indeed this movie purports to follow spontaneous scenarios, but when Bobby does attempt to control his family, he only succeeds in torturing them and the audience...