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...Nairobi, Kenya, last Dec. 17 and signed a peace accord in which he agreed to dismantle his troops and become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the rebel leader, who now claims he was forced to sign the peace treaty under "great external pressure" from Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, never put into effect the terms of the agreement. Instead, he returned to his stronghold in the south of Uganda and, a month later, mounted his successful assault on Kampala...
...often it can be cast for only one man. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda was the sole candidate in his nation's presidential elections last October, when he was elected to a fifth four-year term. In Kenya, long a showplace of African democracy, President Daniel Arap Moi faced no challenger in elections last September...
...those who did not attend was the outgoing O.A.U. chairman, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who was preoccupied at home with the aftermath of a failed coup attempt. Many others stayed away because they could not abide the thought that Gaddafi, who has meddled in the affairs of at least 22 of his neighbors, would take over the direction of their organization...
...strange and violent 72-hour outburst beginning on Aug. 1 was led by discontented enlisted members of the country's 2,200-member air force in an effort to overthrow the government of President Daniel arap Moi, 57. It came as a particular shock to Kenyans, who are proud of their country's reputation as a model of African capitalism and stable black self-rule in the midst of a region of turbulence. Suddenly, Kenya was revealed as a country racked, beneath its placid surface, by savage and dangerous political and economic tensions. Says Peter Frank, manager...
...while at his official state home 21 miles away in Entebbe. There he remained, closeted and lonely, insisting that he was still President. In the midst of the rebellion, Binaisa dispatched plaintive letters to the leaders of three neighboring countries, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Kenya's Daniel arap Moi and Sudan's Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri. The letters to Arap Moi and Nimeiri were intercepted by the Ugandan military. "Dear Brother Gaafar," said the missive to Nimeiri, stamped TOP SECRET, "I am in the middle of a political crisis... I ask you to make available...