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...days, announcing that the ministers' permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those who showed up late, Big Daddy curtly announced, would be court-martialed...
Last week Amin offered another surprise. He suddenly invited a small group of foreign correspondents in Africa-including TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs-to Kampala for a one-day visit that included a rare interview with the Ugandan dictator. Griggs' report...
...three-hour tour of Kampala by bus and on foot, I saw not a single white face on the street, and only one Asian. Uganda's white population today is only a shade over 3,000, down more than half from that of last August. There are fewer than 1,000 Asians left, mostly skilled specialists who were exempted from the expulsion decree...
Some 4,000 Asian businesses are now in black hands, and the hardest-working people in Kampala seem to be sign painters replacing the names of Asian shopkeepers with those of Africans. As a result of the Asian exodus last year, the town has been left without a single locksmith, and some of the new shopkeepers have had to dynamite office safes to get at records. Many of the new proprietors still do not know how to reorder goods. And new orders will not be shipped by suppliers without cash in hand, but Uganda's import laws specify cash...
There is a shortage of such staples as sugar, salt and soap, but Kampala appeared calm. Amin still seems to be popular with most Ugandans, who attribute the sporadic killings by the army to dirty work done by subordinates without his knowledge. Since 80% of the country's 10 million people live as subsistence farmers more or less outside the cash economy, the threat of a commercial collapse in the capital does not worry Amin inordinately. The coffee and cotton crops are earning foreign exchange, and Uganda's hard-currency position seems to be strong enough to permit...