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Born. To Milton Apollo Obote, 39, Prime Minister of Uganda; and Miria Kalule Obote, 28; their first child, a son; in Kampala...
Short-lived Triumph. Even as he spoke, the infection of mutiny was spreading. At Jinja, neighboring Uganda's second largest city located at the headwaters of the Nile some 50 miles east of the Kampala capital, two companies of the Uganda Rifles followed the example set by their former brothers-in-arms. They locked up their British officers and demanded a pay hike similar to that which the Tanganyikan troops had asked for. When Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote sent his Internal Affairs Minister to negotiate, they arrested him as well. But Obote had learned from Nyerere...
...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
...threw the party denied that the song had been sung, claimed that their party was harmless tomfoolery. But despite their protestations, Uganda was in an ugly mood. The manager of the Uganda Argus, who had not even attended the party, was abducted by nine angry Africans and marched through Kampala's marketplace carrying a bunch of bananas on his head...
Married. Apollo Milton Obote, 38, Prime Minister of one-year-old Uganda; and Miria Kalule, 27, former secretary to the Ugandan U.N. delegation; in an Anglican ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Uganda in Kampala's Namirembe Cathedral, followed by a reception for 10,000 at Lugogo Stadium...