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Last week Uganda's neighbors, who have been alarmed by Amin's policies, stepped up efforts to keep peace in the area. Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko visited Kampala, and was presented by Amin with the Order of the Source of the Nile, Uganda's highest medal. The two leaders even agreed to rename Lake Albert and Lake Edward, which lie on the border of Zaïre and Uganda and will henceforth be known, respectively, as Mobutu Sese Seko Lake and Idi Amin Dada Lake. More important, Mobutu seemingly won Amin...
With the Maple Leaf flapping crisply from his white Mercedes limousine, Canadian High Commissioner William Olivier set out under a warm morning sun last week at the head of an official motorcade bound for the airport outside Kampala. Behind him followed three busloads of doctors, lawyers and engineers, together with their wives and children-the first group of Ugandan Asians to be offered refuge by Canada...
...still remains a strong undercurrent of racist opposition to the new arrivals. Responding to local pressures in some cities, the government has drawn up a "red list" of cities that the Asians are advised to avoid. The city of Leicester even went so far as to place advertisements in Kampala newspapers, telling Asians to stay away because of crowded conditions. The old military bases that have been readied as transit housing now threaten to become full-fledged refugee camps; at the Stradishall R.A.F. base, Asians were crammed 18 to a room...
...police treated them correctly and even politely. Food was served on silver trays from a nearby hotel. Smokers were supplied with cigarettes. According to French Television Correspondent Jean-Loup Demigneux, who spent 24 hours in the "black hole of Kampala," as reporters came to call it, the most terrifying moment was at 3 a.m., when four of Amin's soldiers marched in. Slightly drunk and obviously hostile, each of the four carried a pistol in one hand and a submachine gun in the other. They beat up a police guard who tried to stop them, but their only apparent...
...prisoners, foreign embassies were able to locate their citizens (at week's end, all Americans and Britons had been released). Less fortunate were those who were taken to the Makindye military prison, a collection of one-story buildings behind a double fence of barbed wire four miles outside Kampala, where they were held incommunicado and witnessed scenes of almost casual brutality. A.P. Correspondent Torchia was missing for three days before the American embassy was able to locate him. After his release, he described how Ugandan soldiers pinned a man on the ground while a woman beat him with...