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...them small businessmen and shopkeepers who constituted the most stable portion of Ugandan society. Three years later, when a British resident of Uganda, Denis Hills, called Amin a "village tyrant" in an unpublished manuscript, Big Daddy threatened to execute him by firing squad but eventually released him after James Callaghan, then Britain's Foreign Secretary, flew to Uganda at Amin's insistence to negotiate for Hills' life...
...long since learned that they cannot do anything about Amin. At the moment, they are concerned about a related problem: how to keep him from paying them an unwanted visit. Like other Commonwealth leaders, Amin plans to attend a meeting of Commonwealth nations in London next June. Prime Minister Callaghan has promised to see if the 35 other Commonwealth governments would tolerate Amin's presence, and he devoutly hopes that those leaders will themselves disinvite their colleague. Characteristically, Big Daddy has already let it be known that he will bring a retinue of 250 people, including a dance troupe...
...Nationalist Charles Parnell and his colleagues, the guillotine has been a welcome procedure for circumventing parliamentary bottlenecks. But when employed prematurely to close off debate on major, hotly contested legislation, it can stir up the wrath of M.P.s on both sides of the floor. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor government ran into just that kind of resistance when House Leader Michael Foot tried to ram through a guillotine vote to restrict debate on the devolution bill, which would give limited home rule to Scotland and Wales. Furious, 22 rebellious Labor M.P.s joined the opposition long enough...
...eleven days of discussion) or eventual abandonment for this session of Parliament. It drastically undercut Labor's position with Scottish voters and, though not a vote of confidence, raised the question of the Labor Party's ability to govern. For the first time since Prime Minister Callaghan took office eleven months ago, it appeared that his government might be forced to call general elections before 1979, when they are next scheduled to be held...
...Callaghan's gamble on slicing through such secondary matters with the guillotine could have proved a deft ploy. Had it passed, the devolution bill, carrying the hopes of important Scottish and Welsh constituencies, would have been hard to turn down. But too many M.P.s of all parties resented the attempt to end the debate. Then the Tory shadow spokesman on devolution, Francis Pym, proposed an alternative-an all-party convention to discuss the whole devolution matter. The adroit Tory maneuver may have encouraged wavering Laborites to defect on the guillotine vote...