Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Amin offered another surprise. He suddenly invited a small group of foreign correspondents in Africa-including TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs-to Kampala for a one-day visit that included a rare interview with the Ugandan dictator. Griggs' report...
...three-hour tour of Kampala by bus and on foot, I saw not a single white face on the street, and only one Asian. Uganda's white population today is only a shade over 3,000, down more than half from that of last August. There are fewer than 1,000 Asians left, mostly skilled specialists who were exempted from the expulsion decree...
...lights, he started off with a diatribe against British policy toward Uganda, especially London's recent decision to cancel a $24 million aid program, which Amin dismissed as "whitemailing." Henceforth, he declared, all British place names in Uganda would be replaced by African ones, and the Kampala Club, a stuffy symbol of British empire that had remained virtually allwhite, would become the "Government Club," a meeting place for Big Daddy and his cronies...
...that they were mercenaries in disguise who had entered Uganda with firearms and military uniforms concealed beneath their priestly robes. Among these purported warrior-priests was a 92-year-old French missionary who came to Uganda 60 years ago, and the 80-year-old Italian-born former Archbishop of Kampala. When the present Archbishop, the Most Rev. Emmanuel Nsubuga, asked Amin to back up his charges, he produced a letter from a Ugandan living in Kenya that, Amin charged, implied that the Catholics were in league with "Zionist and South African imperialists." Big Daddy admonished the Archbishop: "You must pray...
...after driving him to the Ugandan airport, had been stopped by soldiers and slowly cut to death with machete-like panga knives. A businessman said that he left hurriedly after both his partners in a gas-station chain were stopped while carrying the week's receipts into Kampala, put into the trunk of a car and driven to a village where they were hanged...