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BORN. To Field Marshal Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, 49, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, 26, the senior of his current wives: twin boys, her third and fourth children, his 33rd and 34th; in Kampala, Uganda...
...rumors began when Radio Uganda announced that Amin would attend a celebration in the country's northwestern region; no further mention of the festivities was made in following days. The anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...
...delegates agreed to set up the nucleus of a permanent Afro-Arab organization and to hold a summit conference again in 1980. Both Uganda and Sudan offered their capitals as the site. Amin's Kampala is not quite what the Afro-Arabs had in mind. But, as one Arab League official put it, "a lot can happen in three years...
...crisis, the first of Jimmy Carter's presidency, began when Amin ordered the approximately 200 Americans in Uganda to meet with him early last week in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, and then declared that until the meeting, they would not be allowed to leave the country. Washington feared that the lives of the Americans, most of whom are missionaries, might be in danger. But then Amin postponed the meeting, said that the Americans could leave whenever they liked, and told a small group of U.S. citizens who work for Uganda Airlines that they should regard the people...
Bags Packed. Practically all the American residents in Uganda had already made their way to Kampala with their possessions packed, as Amin had ordered. They fully expected a last audience with Amin and a quick deportation. When the bulky dictator reversed himself and said they were free to return to their homes in outlying districts, the majority chose to remain in Kampala to await further news...