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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter made no effort to hide his feelings. The "horrible murders" of an archbishop and two Cabinet ministers in Uganda, he said during his press conference, "have disgusted the entire civilized world." Two days later Uganda's Idi Amin Dada appeared to retaliate by forbidding some 200 Americans to leave his country and summoning them to a meeting this week. Most Amin watchers expected that he would inflict nothing more drastic than oratory and theatrics on the Americans; he himself issued reassurances. But with the unstable dictator, no one could be sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Carter's Morality Play | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...rally, in fact, was the closest approach to a "hearing" that Archbishop Luwum and the two ministers would ever get. Next day, Radio Uganda reported that the prisoners had been killed when the car transporting them to an interrogation center collided with another vehicle and overturned; the victims, said the broadcast, had tried to overpower the driver in an attempt to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Death of an Archbishop | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Grave Jeopardy. Accident or not, the deaths provoked angry protests from opponents of the regime and raised fears that Amin, a Moslem, might open a fresh campaign against Uganda's Christians, who constitute half the nation's 11.6 million populace. Only a week ago Archbishop Luwum and 18 bishops had written a four-page letter to the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, warning that Ugandan Christians were "in grave jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Death of an Archbishop | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...conference last week promptly declared that the archbishop had been murdered, while the World Council of Churches in Geneva demanded an international inquiry into "a six-year reign of terror in Uganda." In Amin's Uganda, there was little likelihood of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Death of an Archbishop | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...ferreted out a scheme involving dissident soldiers and pilots and ordered a military campaign against a border village in which hundreds of tribesmen may have been killed; Amin has made no mention of this. In any event, the world has only his word that the ministers and the archbishop were involved in some plot. He merely described the "accident" as "a punishment of God, because God does not want to make others suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Death of an Archbishop | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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