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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build a memorial to the Nazi leader in Kampala. He arrived at a party in a sedan chair carried by four local British businessmen who, explained Amin genially, were thus demonstrating "the new white man's burden." He wrongfully accused his former Foreign Minister, the beautiful Princess Elisabeth Bagaya, of sexual indiscretions. After the dramatic Israeli raid on Entebbe airport last July, an angry Amin ordered the summary execution of several air-traffic controllers, policemen and other airport officials on duty at the time. Over the past six years, according to Amnesty International, Amin has been directly or indirectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...discontent. During Big Daddy's four-year reign, at least 50,000 Ugandans-and perhaps four or five times that number-have been murdered. Amin's own brother-in-law, Wanume Kibedi, quit as Foreign Minister last year in disgust. Kibedi's glamorous replacement, Princess Elizabeth Bagaya, a former high-fashion model, was sacked two months ago on the trumped-up charge that she had made love to a white man in a rest room at Paris' Orly Airport. Last week Amin ordered Uganda's newspapers to publish an old photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Murderous Anarchy | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were deposed as rulers of Toro in 1966) said that she would be known simply as Elizabeth Bagaya in Cairo. Sounding like a lady the boss can count on, she added: "I am excited and grateful that General Amin, a champion of the Arab cause, has chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1974 | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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