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...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...
Uganda celebrated the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain last week. It was hardly an occasion for rejoicing. Under its unpredictable military ruler, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, the country has drifted closer and closer to chaos. It was an especially bitter holiday for Uganda's 10,000 Asian citizens, who have watched helplessly while Amin ordered the expulsion of tens of thousands of other Asians with British or Indian passports. Last week, after Amin "suggested" that they take part in the anniversary parade, the Asians responded with a pathetic gesture of "loyalty" to the regime that...
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...
...Order of the Source of the Nile, Uganda's highest medal. The two leaders even agreed to rename Lake Albert and Lake Edward, which lie on the border of Zaïre and Uganda and will henceforth be known, respectively, as Mobutu Sese Seko Lake and Idi Amin Dada Lake. More important, Mobutu seemingly won Amin's agreement to extend the Nov. 8 deadline for the departure of the estimated 50,000 Asians holding British citizenship and to attend a peace conference to reduce tensions that have arisen with neighboring Rwanda...