Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having expelled 26,000 Asian residents during the past four months, Uganda's tempestuous dictator Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada turned his attention last week to another minority group. This time his target was the remnant of Uganda's British community, which has shrunk from 7,000 to about 3,000 in the past six months...
When he seized power nearly two years ago, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was not openly hostile to Uganda's foreign residents. But lately he has been vowing to make his country "the first genuinely black African state, " and it is now painfully clear what he means. If Big Daddy has his way, the only people allowed to live permanently in Uganda will be blacks...
...week, they did not look much different from other passengers. The men wore business suits; the women were dressed in slacks or saris. Most of them spoke fluent English. But they were very special travelers: 82 Asians who had been peremptorily ordered out of Uganda by Strongman Idi Amin Dada, even though they were all citizens. Suddenly made stateless, they constituted the first wave of a group of 1,000 refugees that the U.S. has agreed to accept...
...Asians of British citizenship have landed in England from Uganda as a result of General Idi Amin Dada's expulsion order. Several thousand more are resettling in Canada, India and some 27 other countries. The assets they have left behind, with little hope of full compensation, are estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. Despite rumors of wealth secreted in Britain and Switzerland, many of the refugees have arrived, as one British social worker observed, "with only what they can stand...
While the crowd swayed and roared "Dada! Dada!" Amin barreled along, beaming as he inspected his troops, as well as boy scouts and youth leaguers. The Asian marchers brought up the tail end of the parade. As they shambled past, trying to get into step to the band's rendition of Old Folks at Home, African spectators laughed derisively...