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...year ago, Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels marched into Kampala, ousting Idi Amin Dada's despotic regime. Today Uganda remains mired in chaos, burdened with a shattered economy and facing famine. Last week Tanzania prepared to withdraw half of the 20,000-man army that has been the only reliable security force in the country since Amin's downfall, paving the way for yet more political turmoil. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports on the crumbling nation that Big Daddy left behind...
...week that national elections, originally scheduled for June 1981, might be held by November of this year. Until then, Uganda is likely to stumble from crisis to crisis. Says one Westerner in Kampala: "You don't rebuild a national sense of unity after eight years of rule by Idi Amin. This could be a beautiful country once people learn to trust each other again. Until then, all you can do is weep for Uganda...
July 18: Carter announces second cabinet shakeup, to prepare for his campaign. He removes all current officeholders. Kim Jae Kyi, former head of the Korean CIA is made head of Justice Department. Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo becomes Secretary of Defense, Idi Amin is named Secretary of State. Miz Lillian takes over the U.N. Ambassador slot...
...signed an agreement that promised?precariously?to end a seven-year-old civil war and provide a peaceful transition to genuine majority rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. There were other indications of growing rationality in Africa, as three noxious dictators who had transformed their nations into slaughterhouses fell from power: Idi Amin was ousted from Uganda, Jean Bédal Bokassa from the Central African Empire (now Republic), and Francisco Macias Nguema from Equatorial Guinea...
...decade also had madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught in the lethal politics of Southeast Asia...