Word: busia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Innocent civilians have not been the only victims. At Busia, a village that straddles Uganda's border with Kenya, 500 Simba troops were preparing for what their commander, one of Amin's nephews, called a "noble, bloody" last stand against an advancing column of Tanzanians. The screams of Simbas who were being garroted by their comrades for counseling surrender or trying to escape across the border could clearly be heard by passers-by on the town's unpaved main street...
...record. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's Osagyefo or Redeemer, was deposed by a 1966 military coup because his grandiose economic mismanagement had hobbled the nation with debt at the same time that the world cocoa market slumped. The next civilian government lasted only three years before Prime Minister Kofi Busia was ousted by the army. Last week General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, 46, who took over in 1972, met a similar fate. Acheampong suddenly resigned from the army and as chairman of the ruling Supreme Military Council, apparently the victim of an office coup...
Hortencia Busia de Allende, widow of the late Chilean president, last night called the present military junta of Chile a "regime which violates all human rights," and praised Americans who worked to "unmask U.S. aggression in Chile...
Flexing Muscles. In the long run, such grandstanding gestures will only result in an intensification of Colonel Acheampong's economic problems. In London, the deposed Busia claimed that the coup had cost Ghana a $45 million loan from the U.S. and $123 million in loans and credits from the International Monetary Fund. "Without the massive overseas aid I had marshalled," said Busia, "the country is utterly bankrupt...
Colonel Acheampong could hardly disagree with Busia's diagnosis. "I took over to save Ghana from total economic collapse," he told TIME Correspondent Eric Robins. But he brushed aside all specific questions about the country's huge foreign debt of more than $1 billion, its steep inflation and high unemployment. "Economic experts have been given these matters to study," he said. "We will then decide what to do. There will be no hasty decisions, but at the right time we will act decisively...