Word: idy
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...height of its triumphal victory march last week, the M.P.L.A. also scored a notable diplomatic coup when the Organization of African Unity recognized Neto's regime as Angola's sole legitimate government. Uganda President Idi Amin, who is chairman of the O.A.U., praised the move shortly after his own country became the 26th member of the organization to recognize the M.P.L.A. Last month an O.A.U. summit meeting in Addis Ababa was deadlocked 22 to 22 on the question of recognizing the M.P.L.A. It now seems probable that Portugal, which transferred power jointly to the three liberation movements under...
...major recipient of Moscow's largesse, might try to revive its longtime dream of a "greater Somalia" by pushing its territorial claims into southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya, where many ethnic Somalis live. The Nairobi government also fears that Soviet aid to Uganda might inspire its volatile President Idi Amin to push a corridor to the Indian Ocean-through Kenya...
EVEN WHEN Moynihan's attacks are directed against a clearly evil target, like Uganda's Idi Amin, they are couched in language calculated to offend third world sensibilities. It was a gross distortion to claim, as Moynihan did, that it was "no accident" that "racist murderer" Idi Amin, Ugandan head-of-state, was president of the Organization for African Unity. Most African leaders deplore Amin and his policies, although they accepted him as formal head of the OAU--owing to the organization's yearly rotation system--to avoid a public rift...
Heartened by such successes, Moynihan started to take his show on the road. At an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco last October, he approvingly cited a New York Times editorial that called Uganda's President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and incorrectly added that it was "no accident" that Amin was chairman of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Moynihan thus in effect denounced moderate African leaders along with the infamous "Big Daddy"?a mistake that may have cost crucial votes on a motion to postpone, and thus possibly consign to oblivion, the notorious anti-Zionist resolution that...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...