Word: idie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leftist regime headed by Agostinho Neto. So far, no nation has recognized either the F.N.L.A. or its coalition partner, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which are actively backed by the U.S., South Africa and Zaïre. The current chairman of the O.A.U., Idi Amin of Uganda, as well as such influential African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, still hope to promote a government of national unity composed of Angola's three warring factions...
...brightest, as JFK and Doris Kearns emerged with blotted copybooks, though for different reasons. Attempts to create new heroes failed miserably, despite heroic efforts in the cases of Ruben "Hurricane" Carter and Joey "Kid Blast" Gallo. And some shady characters weathered the year better than might be expected. Idi Amin, Isabel Peron, Indira Gandhi, and Stephen S.J. Hall all cling tenaciously to office...
...United Nations had never seen a U.S. ambassador like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had long urged the nation's leaders to start talking back to America's detractors. He made more enemies than friends at the U.N. as he branded Uganda President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and blamed other African governments for supporting him. Moynihan was equally vehement when he denounced the resolution equating Zionism with racism as "infamous." Soon after he threatened to resign because he did not think he was getting proper support from the State Department. Ford, who could scarcely afford more turmoil in his Administration...
...Africans abroad. The Cubans, the Russians, the South Africans, the CIA-they are the mercenaries." Innis denied that his recruiting drive was being sponsored by the CIA, but the newspaper quoted unnamed intelligence sources as saying that, in fact, it was. Innis has ties with Uganda's President Idi Amin, who is opposed to the M.P.L.A., and he may also be trying to ingratiate himself with Amin...
Tippling in the ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up - a cold Coke...