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...dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week's end about the only sign of Amin's outsize presence in the city where he had held brutal sway for eight years was on television screens: rather than dwell on the perils facing Big Daddy...
...Kampala by March...
...from northern Tanzania. The invaders, composed of recently organized bands of Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300,000 Ugandans in the past eight years...
Amin's problems have been further complicated by a wave of sabotage. On Feb. 3, a fuel depot and two electrical substations were blown up in Kampala, knocking out power and water supplies in the area for three days. The Save Uganda Movement, one of several guerrilla groups operating inside the country, claimed responsibility for the attack. The State Research Bureau, Amin's notorious secret police agency, has arrested hundreds of "suspects," but has failed to crush the guerrillas. With pride, the leader of one anti-Amin group declared in Nairobi: "Our office in Kampala was searched...
...army, his mother and two brothers were killed by Amin's soldiers during a barracks purge in 1974. Kuli escaped to Kenya and joined a dissident group. Eventually he re-entered Uganda and began to take part in sabotage activities; he helped blow up the fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within six months. I am perfectly willing to die. I have nothing to live for but to kill Amin." This time, many others appear to share the view that Big Daddy's swaggering...