Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KAMPALA, Uganda--Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels, showered with flowers by civilians, entered Uganda's capital in triumph yesterday after a five month war to drive dictator Idi Amin from power...
...long last, the brutal regime of Uganda's Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada had seemed to be drawing to an ignominious close. A force of 20,000 invading Tanzanian troops and Ugandan dissidents had laid seige to Kampala and was lobbing heavy artillery shells into the capital. Thousands of Africans and Europeans had fled into neighboring Kenya. Amin's own army, 20,000 strong, had either defected to the invaders or disappeared into the bush. But at week's end Big Daddy seemed to have won at least a temporary reprieve. A force of 2,000 Libyan...
...shift in the seesawing war, the 300-lb. Amin was quoted in a radio broadcast as saying that he and his army were "prepared to fight to the last man because they were not prepared to become slaves of Tanzania." Analysts believe that the burly dictator is still in Kampala; earlier, there had been speculation that the Libyans had flown Uganda's President-for-Life to safety in Tripoli, where Amin is said to have sent members of his family some weeks ago. There were also rumors that Amin had fled to Arua, a town in northwest Uganda that...
...weeks the Tanzania-Uganda war had been in a stalemate. Half the invading force had halted near the town of Mpigi, some 30 miles south of Kampala, while the other half was stalled on a road about 40 miles west of the Ugandan capital. The two-pronged attack apparently had been stopped by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. During the course of the five-month war, Nyerere had been reluctant to send his troops all the way to Kampala. He had hoped that the invasion would lead to a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Ugandans, both military and civilian, that would then...
...pattern was broken last week when Nyerere received a note from Gaddafi demanding an end to the invasion and the withdrawal of all Tanzanian troops. Incensed, Nyerere ordered his troops to march into Kampala. They reached the capital's suburbs in two days, after laying down a barrage of 122-mm Soviet artillery that was inaccurate but noisily effective. Amin's forces seemed to melt away under the African...