Word: idy
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...Empire from 1876 to 1909; Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader from 1929 to 1953; Adolf Hitler, an automatic club member as leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945; Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976; and the only living honoree, Uganda's brutish, exiled Dictator Idi Amin. Seven politicians, a barbarian, a lady-in-hating and a frustrated artist. But only one woman? Says Steven Schlesinger, one of the voters: "We only selected one woman not because we're chauvinists but because few women have been in a position to cause the kind of damage...
Mulcahy also discovered that Terpil had provided arms, explosives and torture devices under a $3.2 million contract with Idi Amin Dada's brutal government in Uganda. Terpil had once bragged about testing a new poison on someone in Uganda whom he had no reason to kill He also told two New York City undercover police posing as arms buyers, ""If you're knocking off Americans, it will cost you 40% more...
Joel Lisker, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, doubts that the number of former agents involved in such traffic is large. "But it doesn't need to be," he adds. "Terpil and Wilson alone could keep Gaddafi and Idi Amin supplied with everything they need." Lisker suspects that the CIA probably did know about the Wilson and Terpil dealings with the Libyan dictator, explaining, "Gaddafi is the No. 1 guy the CIA wants to get next to. He's a bad guy -and so are Wilson and Terpil. How else could...
...else's; Kissinger lives like Kissinger. Still, his [1973] Nobel Peace Prize bothers me. First of all it seems unfair. The prize should have been given to the Pentagon. Following the same line of thought, I suggest to the Nobel jury that it consider Uganda's Idi Amin, who has not shattered the skull of any of his ministers for at least a year...
When Uganda's newly elected President Milton Obote pledged his government to a policy of national reconciliation, he stirred hopes that his brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote...