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Muwanga is believed to coordinate the government's increasingly harsh effort to intimidate its enemies by force. As Defense Minister, he supervises Uganda's unruly 5,000-man army which, he admits, is used more for internal security than to defend the country against external threats. "This is a necessity because the police force was nearly wiped out by Amin." As if to punctuate his remarks, a burst of shots fired by a nervous soldier crackled outside Muwanga's suite in Kampala's Nile Mansions Hotel...
...likely to do the same. Says Forrest Berghorn, a political scientist at the University of Kansas: "The American spirit is too self-centered to concern itself with this for very long. The space shuttle success is in a class with our hockey victory over Russia." That may be too harsh a judgment; of late there have been signs of a renewed popular interest in space. Yet even those who want a redoubled U.S. space effort doubt there will be a lasting effect from the flight unless a profound change of mood occurs in budget-minded Washington. Says Jerry Grey, public...
...Ethiopia or Somalia that is under Soviet and Cuban domination? But labels can mislead. In his new autobiographical Ways of Escape, Graham Greene writes: "I had an idea before I went to Malaya, an idea picked up from an unsympathetic press, of a group of men, the harsh overseers of great capitalist enterprises, intransigent, unconstructive exploiters of native labor, drinking stengah after stengah in the local club, probably in the Somerset Maugham manner making love to each other's wives. But before I had stayed long in Malaya I learned that there was no such thing...
...people who prayed once a week in that chapel don't think very hard about what it is that has captured their loyalty and branded them for life. They don't have to see the beauty in the harsh New England weather or the luxury of their libraries and playing fields. And to their own loss, many do not understand why they will spend so much of their adult lives trying to recapture that flawless sixth-form year. "It's downhill for a lot of people after prep school. There's a definite sense of loss," one of our roommates...
...white or Black. Ideally, it would have more minority officers and fewer minority kitchen workers who have been forced into uniform because their lack of skills prevents them from finding a job elsewhere. A draft, however, would neither induce technicians to stay nor improve the lot of minorities in harsh economic conditions...