Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over the rest of the society," Berlinguer scolded him on Italian television, saying: "That is a summary judgment...
Nobody ever knows exactly what game Idi Amin is playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard...
Meanwhile, black refugees from Uganda seeking refuge in Kenya told harrowing new tales of Amin's murderous campaign of repression against members of the Christian Lango and Acholi tribes, whom he regards as his enemies. There were reports of house-to-house searches and sweeping arrests. Among the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said...
...summit meeting of African and Arab heads of state in Cairo-will surely be killed one day by some segment of his army or police force, if not by a lone assassin. But that would not necessarily mean the end of Uganda's troubles. The restive Christian majority might then be in a position to settle its own long list of scores and grievances. There could well be a prolonged internecine struggle for power among the Army officers who presumably would succeed Amin. And after six years of Amin's tyranny, in which professional people, civil servants...
...Sick," says Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School about the same woman. Adds another theologian: "The Christian whore...