Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 16 hours after the fighting broke out, Radio Uganda announced that Obote had been overthrown. Then, after a musical interlude (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), it introduced his successor: Major General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, 46, a huge (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) army careerist who once reigned as Uganda's heavyweight boxing champion and has been armed-forces chief of staff since...
...University of Wisconsin, 83 students were arrested after 20 major firebombings. Governor Warren Knowles called out 2,100 National Guardsmen to cope with the violence. As elsewhere, though, there was a sort of Dada contrast between incendiary violence and collegiate languor: couples walking hand in hand, playing tennis, spinning Frisbees, sailing across Lake Mendota. After one of many confrontations with the National Guard, a student shrugged nervously: "Well, I just threw my first rock." The atmosphere was entirely different at Grinnell College in Iowa. When protesters broke a window by accident, they collected $14.39 to replace...