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...detected in 1982, but is believed by some medical researchers to have appeared decades earlier. In Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, one test discovered AIDS exposure in 18% of the city's inhabitants. In Uganda, a study of more than 1,000 pregnant women in the capital city of Kampala showed that 13.6% carried the virus. While male victims outnumber female victims by 13 to 1 in the U.S., in Africa the disease appears to strike women and men in roughly equal numbers. The same holds true in Haiti...
...fact that the National Resistance Army appears to be disciplined and has restored order to those areas of Uganda that it has controlled." Some wary Ugandans, however, have adopted a cautious attitude. "I cannot say what lies ahead of us," said Father Cyprian Lwanga, chancellor of Rubaga Cathedral in Kampala. "It seems that Museveni has a good program, but we must wait and see. We have had so many coups, so many governments. I just don't know...
...peace treaty under "great external pressure" from Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, never put into effect the terms of the agreement. Instead, he returned to his stronghold in the south of Uganda and, a month later, mounted his successful assault on Kampala...
Still another Ugandan government seemed on the verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...
...that this was in response to Ugandan border incursions, but Amin had ordered his troops withdrawn more than a month before Tanzania's action. In any case, if repelling a trespass at the border was the problem, Tanzania should have stopped there. It hardly had to drive to Kampala and install the leader of its choice. Tanzania's action, ridding the world of Amin, was a violation of Ugandan sovereignty. It is hard to see how it can be said to be wrong...