Word: idie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Willman of Sterling Heights, Mich., wanted to know what the President would do if Uganda's Idi Amin detained Americans. (Answer: Keep cool.) Pete Belloni of Denver asked if there would soon be a 25?-a-gal. tax on gasoline. (No.) Mark Fendrick of Brooklyn wondered if his baseball team, the Yankees, would be allowed to play an exhibition game in Communist Cuba. (Perhaps.) Phyllis Dupere of Rehoboth, Mass., asked if Jimmy Carter would be willing to sign on for a space-shuttle mission. (He's "probably too old to do that," but Amy might some...
President Idi Amin Dada was behaving true to bizarre form. First he provoked an international crisis, thereby distracting world attention from the murder and turmoil taking place within Uganda (TIME cover, March 7). Then he quietly backed down...
Nobody ever knows exactly what game Idi Amin is playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard...
...Rhodesia overshadows matters much closer to home. Besides the problem of his socialist nation's faltering economy, he is confronted with the collapse of the East African Community that bound Tanzania with neighboring Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour-long interview with TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs last week at his two-story villa...
...were enjoying an afternoon nap on a hot and humid day, or were out on the golf course. Two of them-Bob Coder, from Florida, and his wife Virginia-strolled out the front door of the Lake Victoria Hotel and there, to their surprise, was President Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada. Two British newspaper colleagues were with the President, who was plainly keen to show both us and President Jimmy Carter that Americans living in Uganda are in no danger...