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...Akosua Busia, actress, author and daughter of former P.M. of Ghana...
...movies gets prettier and prettier, Celie's life gets worse and worse. Her new husband beats her and separates her from her best friend and sister, Nettie (Akosua Busia). "Mister" (Danny Glover), as she affectionately refers to her betrothed, proves to be a real downer: he steals Celie's mail, sleeps around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues...
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...