Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction to the treaty signing. What a favor for us! I can't imagine how you can call this treaty a peace treaty. At the same time you are offering this big amount of military support and aid, and you are calling it peace...
Before you visited this area you put on a big show of power. You now declare you will create a new fleet in the south of our area. What is this peace that you are covering with sophisticated weapons...
...laid seige to Kampala and was lobbing heavy artillery shells into the capital. Thousands of Africans and Europeans had fled into neighboring Kenya. Amin's own army, 20,000 strong, had either defected to the invaders or disappeared into the bush. But at week's end Big Daddy seemed to have won at least a temporary reprieve. A force of 2,000 Libyan troops, sent at the last minute by Amin's ally, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, mounted a counterattack that drove the invaders out of the Kampala suburbs to Budo, 16 miles southwest of the capital...
Anticipating victory over Amin, Ugandan exiles from around the world met last week in Tanzania to form a provisional government. Conspicuously absent was former President Milton Obote, who had been overthrown by Big Daddy in 1971. Never a particularly popular leader, Obote had alienated many of his countrymen with his authoritarian manner and socialist rhetoric, and particularly with his ruthless efforts to crush Uganda's ancient tribal kingdoms in the interests of national unity...
...compromise leader, Y.K. Lule, 66, former chancellor of Makerere University. Under the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front, the group declared that the new government will re-establish democratic principles, including the rule of law and respect for human rights. That would be quite a change for Big Daddy's tormented domain...