Word: idy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Field Marshal Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, 49, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, 26, the senior of his current wives: twin boys, her third and fourth children, his 33rd and 34th; in Kampala, Uganda...
Whether by accident or design, Uganda's President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada seems bent on making his country the world's most unfathomable nation. At the center of the puzzle, as always, are the maneuvers of "Big Daddy" himself. Last week he managed to be even more mysterious than usual. For four days, Amin simply disappeared from view. By the time he resurfaced, by way of reassuring announcements on Radio Uganda, all sorts of stories had floated that there had been an unsuccessful attempt on his life and a subsequent bloodbath by his dread State Research Bureau...
...receiving many disparate signals simultaneously. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's utterances detonate like cherry bombs. Anita Bryant, the Pasionaria of heterosex, arouses furies in her campaign against homosexuals. The air is full of serious issues that few people except those directly affected take all that seriously: human rights, Laetrile, Idi Amin...
...bizarre threat by Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin to upstage the Jubilee by crashing the Commonwealth Conference, which opened last week, never materialized. Amin had been advised that his presence would be "inappropriate" because of his regime's brutal tyranny. Then Radio Uganda suddenly announced that Amin was on his way to London, setting off a flurry of rumors that his plane was circling various airports in Europe looking for a place to land. It turned out to be a hoax; Big Daddy never left Uganda...
...coterie of officers who finally deposed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974. Today, at 39, he has emerged as the top man in Ethiopia's 60-member junta, largely by pressing a campaign of arrests and killings that rivals even Ugandan Field Marshal Idi Amin's considerable efforts in this area. Mostly, Mengistu's efforts have been aimed at half a dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea, a desert province along the Red Sea coast. While cracking down at home, Mengistu-like other African leftist leaders...