Word: gulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion in retrospect was both futile and foolhardy-in effect, an African Bay of Pigs. The pilot of an East African Airways DC-9, for example, was to have dropped a company of paracommandos into the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. Apparently he got lost during the night and was forced to land at the Kilimanjaro Airport. The plane was found the next morning, tires flat, fuel tank empty; the pilot and his troops had disappeared into the bush, unharmed but also unsuccessful. The rebels had also counted on large numbers of soldiers from Uganda's well-armed...
...Last week Obote was proved to be more foolhardy than farsighted as his army staged Black Africa's 27th coup d'état in little more than a decade. Random battles raged from Kampala, Uganda's lovely capital city in the hills beside Lake Victoria, to Gulu in the north. At the Entebbe International Airport, a rebel tank clanked up to the front door and fired a shell at the far wall; the target was a portrait of Obote, but three waiting passengers, including two Canadian priests, were killed by shrapnel...