Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, about 48, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, about 22, newest of the four wives allowed to Amin by the Moslem religion: a daughter, her second child, his 14th; in Kampala...
...Brazzaville, August 1973.) "I am told that venereal disease is very high with you ... You had better go to the hospital to make yourselves very clean, or you will infect the whole population. I don't want you spoiled by gonorrhea." (In an address to students of Kampala's Makerere University, summer...
...days, announcing that the ministers' permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those who showed up late, Big Daddy curtly announced, would be court-martialed...
Some 4,000 Asian businesses are now in black hands, and the hardest-working people in Kampala seem to be sign painters replacing the names of Asian shopkeepers with those of Africans. As a result of the Asian exodus last year, the town has been left without a single locksmith, and some of the new shopkeepers have had to dynamite office safes to get at records. Many of the new proprietors still do not know how to reorder goods. And new orders will not be shipped by suppliers without cash in hand, but Uganda's import laws specify cash...
There is a shortage of such staples as sugar, salt and soap, but Kampala appeared calm. Amin still seems to be popular with most Ugandans, who attribute the sporadic killings by the army to dirty work done by subordinates without his knowledge. Since 80% of the country's 10 million people live as subsistence farmers more or less outside the cash economy, the threat of a commercial collapse in the capital does not worry Amin inordinately. The coffee and cotton crops are earning foreign exchange, and Uganda's hard-currency position seems to be strong enough to permit...