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...Whatever happened to Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator...
...accused of torture, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing and the murder of some 300,000 of his countrymen, Idi Amin Dada is doing pretty nicely at the pleasure of the Saudi royal family. Although his hosts have imposed a media gag on the 72-year-old former military officer and self-proclaimed national heavyweight boxing champion, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, they've shown no inclination to extradite him. Instead, the Saudis pay Amin a monthly stipend that allows him to live comfortably with a large entourage in a villa in Jidda, where he swims, goes fishing...
...broaden, however, this limited vocabulary can get very frustrating--leading to rounds of Baby Jeopardy ("I'll take crackers for $500, Art!") as parents guess what Baby is trying to "say." A baby caught in this bind can, at times, resort to acting like a frustrated, incontinent mini-dictator--Idi Amin in a diaper...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...
...novel is, ostensibly, the coming-of-age story of its narrator, Mugezi, who is born in a tiny Ugandan village in the early 1960s and who grows up to witness firsthand his country's plunge into chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides...