Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be ruler of all Uganda. It was an accurate prediction. Last month General Amin, now 44, celebrated the first anniversary of his accession to Uganda's presidency after leading a coup that ousted the demagogic Milton Obote. There was a massive parade through the streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital, which featured a band in kilts and busbies marching to the skirl of bagpipes and sinuous dances by women from the Karamoja area dressed in colorful bras and wood-bark skirts. In all, more than 100,000 celebrating Ugandans, representing most of the nation...
...about 240 Ibs. on his chunky 6-ft. 3-in. frame. He is also not your ordinary, everyday military dictator. A devout Moslem who detests hashish and miniskirts with equal fervor, he has four wives, three of whom take turns acting as official hostesses at presidential tea parties in Kampala. On Uganda's hotter days, Amin is likely to show up at hotel pools clad only in a pair of faded blue shorts...
...Paris last week a beggar on the steps of Sacré-Coeur displayed a hastily scribbled sign: "Dollars are no longer accepted." In Kampala, Uganda, where the dollar used to bring 10 shillings on the black market, safariing Americans were lucky to get five. And in Zurich, hardhearted whores gave only three Swiss francs to the dollar, instead of the official...
...tools other than their steel-bladed spears, live on little more than a mixture of curdled blood and milk, and have no wealth other than their thirsty herds. But much to the Karamoigongs' distress, all that really seems to disturb the reform-minded regime in far-off Kampala is the fact that they have no clothes...
...Treason. The response in Kampala, where Obote was never popular, was jubilant. Cheering crowds trampled on thousands of framed Obote photographs. Some tried to scale the walls of the 17-story Apolo Hotel, Obote's namesake, to tear down its huge neon sign. Others attempted to commandeer a tank to blast an engraving of Obote from the seal of the Parliament building...