Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody...
...least 20,000 lives-and perhaps as many as 90,000-and finally convinced the Lugbaras that their turn as targets was bound to come. Sure enough, Lugbara soldiers and officers started disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
...plans last week called for an assassination squad to ambush Amin at his house on Kampala's Kokolo Hill. But when the squad arrived shortly after midnight, Amin was not there...
...Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were deposed as rulers of Toro in 1966) said that she would be known simply as Elizabeth Bagaya in Cairo. Sounding like a lady the boss can count on, she added: "I am excited and grateful that General Amin, a champion of the Arab...
Meanwhile, Uganda's irrepressible General Idi Amin Dada, whose graveyard humor has frequently been directed at President Nixon, launched a "Bananas for Britain" campaign to help the British through their winter of discontent. Amin personally donated $1,400 and squeezed another $3,400 out of a bemused Kampala rally. Whitehall officials, who obviously had not yet lost their talent for repartee, said the Foreign Ministry had received no money yet. But, they added, they would know just what to do with it if it arrived: turn it over to Ugandan Asians in Britain as compensation for the losses they...