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Last week around 2,000 mutinous Acholi troops, led by Northern Brigade Commander Bazilio Olara Okello, seized control of parts of the north and began moving southward. They surged across the White Nile and went on to overpower Obote loyalists at Bombo Barracks, 20 miles from the capital of Kampala. Finally, on Saturday, a column of about 20 tanks, jeeps and buses filled with heavily armed troops rolled into Kampala. Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings...
This time, Nadesu picked up the first out early, forcing Bauer to fly to right on the inning's third pitch. Six hits and three walks later, however, he still didn't have another one, and before Elliott (Bombo) Rivera skied to Guillermo Caeser in center. Harvard had a 24-2 lead. Chicarello doubled home Farrell two batters later for the quarter century mark...
Died. Al Jolson, 64, black-faced, mammy-shouting musicomedy star (Sinbad, Bombo, Big Boy), whose brassy voice in The Jazz Singer for Warner Brothers in 1927 gave talking pictures their first real start; of coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. After a successful movie and radio career and then semi-retirement in the thirties, Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) started a second career during World War II, when he entertained troops in Europe, Africa, India and the South Pacific. In 1946 his dubbed-in singing of his old favorites (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers) in The Jolson Story...
Ballistic exports, still examining the two smoke bombo which the robbers used to distract attention during their crime, said that the implements could very possibly be war surplus material of the type currently being distributed in New England...
...Jolson, looking like "Bombo" in a Senegalese fez. Already a veteran of U.S.O. tours in Alaska, the Pacific, the Caribbean, he was now back from Africa and Sicily. He too plumped for newer films for the troops, reported: "They don't want Shakespeare. They're kids, they're babies-they want light stuff, but no legitimate...