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...DIED, MILTON OBOTE, 80, early architect of Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962 and the country's first postcolonial prime minister; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The savvy, but ultimately despotic, politician, who tried unsuccessfully to unite Uganda's factionalized parties, was overthrown in 1971 by his military aide, Idi Amin. After Amin's brutal reign, Obote regained power in 1980, but an allegedly rigged election and his repressive rule led to his ouster and exile to Zambia...
...English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities, Waite accepted his present post with Runcie...
...editor to instruct the mujahedin on the use of antitank mines. Brown has organized a dozen teams to train the Salvadoran army and loaned nine staffers to teach the contras fighting the Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
...result, ujamaa has been allowed to die a quiet death, and roughly 85% of the population has gone back to subsistence farming. Meanwhile, the nationalized industries are working at only about 20% of capacity. Tanzania's expensive 1979 military intervention in neighboring Uganda to topple the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin further accelerated the economic decline. Says one international banker: "The place is an economic basket case...