Word: kampala
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Tanzanian armed forces have reached the northernmost corners of Uganda, and the fighting by remnants of Idi Amin's army is over. But in the capital city of Kampala, the new government of President Yusufu Lule is hard pressed to maintain even a resemblance of stability. Squabbling within the government, a hastily assembled coalition of often opposing tribal and ideological groups, is so heated that the new regime is barely able to address itself to the crucial problems of reconstruction...
...Obote has remained there since Amin's overthrow, presumably because Lule and his colleagues felt that the ex-President's presence would have a disruptive effect on the new government. A week ago, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, godfather of sorts to the new regime in Kampala, called its leaders to Tanzania to talk over their differences. One result of the meeting is that Obote is apparently free, with Lule's approval, to return to Uganda and take part in rebuilding the country...
...rate at which they have been expending ammunition up to now, Amin's remaining loyalists will run out of it very soon. Three weeks after Amin fled from Kampala, Uganda's capital, bands of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan continued to roam the countryside, looting and killing. A particularly outrageous atrocity occurred on the day after Easter. At Jinja, an industrial town 50 miles east of Kampala, pro-Amin troops seized a group of 130 Catholic parishioners arriving by bus with a black bishop from the town of Mbale. The parishioners were herded into a stockade...
...staff and students at the St. Theresa Mission School in Nandere, a tiny village deep in the bamboo-and-papyrus forests 30 miles north of Kampala, were more fortunate. First a band of Amin's soldiers robbed Headmaster Kibunka Peregrine of his watch and money; then, the headmaster told TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, one of the soldiers "jammed a hand grenade in my mouth and told me to take him to the deacon." Peregrine knocked on the bullet-scarred door of the deacon's office, but no one emerged. "When Amin's boys left...
...most feared institution in Idi Amin's Uganda was the SRB, which was housed in a pink stucco, three-story building sandwiched between the President-for-Life's home and the Italian embassy in Kampala's tranquil diplomatic district. There the dread secret police carried out much of the torturing and killing that were a large part of Amin's style of rule. Abraham Kisuule-Minge, 27, an SRB officer for five years, fled in early April after helping a prisoner escape...