Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salute set the pied crows to wheeling and wailing in the sky above Kololo Stadium in Kampala, Uganda's beautiful capital. As 2,000 soldiers led the British-style trooping of the colors, and the crowd sweated in the searing equatorial sun, General Amin flamboyantly conferred an array of honors on his distinguished visitors. The First Class Order of the Source of the Nile went to Somalia's General Mohamed Barre, while the Second Class Order of the same medal was bestowed upon the Sudanese Vice President, Major General Mohamed El-Bagir. Then Big Daddy decorated members...
Last week Uganda's neighbors, who have been alarmed by Amin's policies, stepped up efforts to keep peace in the area. Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko visited Kampala, and was presented by Amin with the Order of the Source of the Nile, Uganda's highest medal. The two leaders even agreed to rename Lake Albert and Lake Edward, which lie on the border of Zaïre and Uganda and will henceforth be known, respectively, as Mobutu Sese Seko Lake and Idi Amin Dada Lake. More important, Mobutu seemingly won Amin...
...reneged. He would not be able to attend the conference, he said, because he was "busy commanding the armed forces." As for extending the deadline, he denied that he had ever promised to do so. "I continue to believe, until proved wrong," said Mobutu generously in Kinshasa, "that in Kampala I had talks with a real, conscientious and honest statesman. I would be very disappointed if the facts should prove the contrary." Late last week, however, Amin sent U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a message saying that the Asians would be allowed to keep their possessions and would...
With the Maple Leaf flapping crisply from his white Mercedes limousine, Canadian High Commissioner William Olivier set out under a warm morning sun last week at the head of an official motorcade bound for the airport outside Kampala. Behind him followed three busloads of doctors, lawyers and engineers, together with their wives and children-the first group of Ugandan Asians to be offered refuge by Canada...
...still remains a strong undercurrent of racist opposition to the new arrivals. Responding to local pressures in some cities, the government has drawn up a "red list" of cities that the Asians are advised to avoid. The city of Leicester even went so far as to place advertisements in Kampala newspapers, telling Asians to stay away because of crowded conditions. The old military bases that have been readied as transit housing now threaten to become full-fledged refugee camps; at the Stradishall R.A.F. base, Asians were crammed 18 to a room...