Word: kampala
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Nice Irony. Worried not only about Hills but about the fate of 700 other British citizens residing in Uganda, Britain's Labor Government dispatched to Kampala two royal envoys who seemed well-suited to the assignment: Lieut. General Sir Chandos Blair, 56, and retired Major Iain Grahame, 43, who were Amin's military commanders when he was a soldier in the now. disbanded King's African Rifles. When the envoys reached Kampala, they were greeted by a guard of honor and a military band. Amin was off at a rally in honor of African Refugee Day. This...
After a day of waiting in Kampala, the two officers were transported by helicopter to meet Amin in Arua, his birthplace in northern Uganda. With typical cunning, Big Daddy was waiting for them in the gloom of a thatched hut whose entrance was so low that the British officers were obliged to crawl inside, thereby enabling Radio Uganda to boast that "the two guests entered the general's house on their knees...
London immediately refuted the charges, pointing out that it had only 38 servicemen in Kenya and no combat troops whatever on the two vessels that were making routine calls at Mombasa. In the House of Commons, Callaghan declared firmly that he would be willling to go to Kampala for discussions but not under duress. "It is utterly wrong," he said, "that a man's life should be bartered against political conditions...
...three-hour anniversary ceremony at Kampala's Nakivubo football stadium held late last month was as bizarre and ludicrous as its sponsor. Along with the traditional drums and dancers, the center of attention was Amin's "Black Watch," a motley assortment of Ugandan soldiers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts, tunics, diced glengarries and plastic sporrans decorated with pied crow feathers. A dozen Africans puffed Scotland the Brave on bagpipes-a measure of Amin's admiration for the Scots, which dates back to his days in the British army...
...unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused of price-gouging face execution by firing squad...