Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work only according to God's directions," explained Uganda's mercurial leader General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, who has added film making to his myriad activities. A transfixed TV audience in England last week saw Big Daddy explain the necessity of killing 3 spies, guerrillas and Israelis, give a detailed demonstration of military tactics, and dress down his Foreign Minister, -who, notes the commentator dryly, turned up dead in the Nile two weeks later. To those new to Big Daddy, French Director Barbet Schroeder's Autoportrait seemed to be an African rendering of Titus Andronicus...
...ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. Until now, though, there has been little solid documentation of just how bad things are in his East African nation. Last week the prestigious International Commission of Jurists issued one of the most scathing reports it has produced in 22 years of investigating official injustice from Turkey to South Africa. After examining evidence for three years the jurists concluded that Uganda has seen "a total breakdown of the rule...
...signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody...
...sooner had Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, accepted the post of Ugandan Ambassador to Egypt last month than General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada changed his mind. Deciding that he could not part with Elizabeth or her talents, he appointed her instead Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ugandan observers consider the promotion a practical rather than romantic measure. Not only does Big Daddy, a Moslem, already have four wives, but he is sadly short of Cabinet talent among his cronies, mostly former NCOS and privates. Before Elizabeth's appointment, he had flayed the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
Uganda's unpredictable General Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada may be a Moslem, but last week he was sounding off on equal rights for women. Suiting action to his words, he appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Egypt Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were...