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...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 itself slipped out of Amin's grasp with what one resident Western diplomat called "an eerie silence." Inching forward with extraordinary caution, the invading columns moved into the suburbs of the city from the southwest; they discovered a capital bereft of both defending troops and most of its civilian inhabitants. The Libyans, who two weeks ago had pushed the Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles out of Kampala's suburbs with a sharp counterattack, had already moved out of the city to avoid entrapment. One of the first landmarks to fall was the notorious Makindye military police headquarters, where...
Uganda loud and clear in a broadcast said to have originated in the station's Kampala studio. In a rambling speech, he lauded the mostly invisible economic achievements of his eight-year regime and announced that the invading Tanzanian army was "sitting on fire and would not survive...
...Tanzanian-based Uganda National Liberation Front was already trying to take over local administration by dispatching district commissioners to towns it controls in southern and western Uganda. The Front was also prepared to establish a new government in Kampala once the city was firmly under its control. No one could be quite sure when that would happen. Amin might decide to make a brave last stand at Jinja, or he might simply flee to either Libya or neighboring Kenya. But it was also not beyond belief that Big Daddy would simply disappear into the bush, and carry on with...