Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kampala gives up, but Big Daddy is still at large
...murderous President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada, 55, last week tried to put the best face on his disintegrating hold on national power. It was, apparently, a futile effort. After several days of sporadic fighting, the occupation force of largely Ugandan exile troops entered the outskirts of Kampala and prepared for a final push. Though scattered fighting still continued in pockets, the invading forces were poised to take control of Uganda's capital...
...bang. The remnants of Amin's forces, accompanied by most of the 2,700 troops sent by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to help him, had retreated to Jinja, Uganda's second largest city. Some observers thought the Tanzanians had deliberately left the exit route east from Kampala open to permit the Libyans a face-saving exodus by an airstrip at Jinja some 60 miles to the east of the capital...
...KAMPALA, Uganda--Uganda's new president, Yusufu Lule, took the oath of office yesterday and asked citizens to help "erase the traces of eight years of Idi Amin...
Amin was last reported at Jinja, 50 miles east of Kampala. He said in his own broadcast, allegedly recorded and transmitted from Soroti, 200 miles northeast of Kampala: "We have got our soldiers controlling the country...