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...take him to the deacon." Peregrine knocked on the bullet-scarred door of the deacon's office, but no one emerged. "When Amin's boys left, he came out," says Peregrine. "I knew he was in there all the time. The soldiers came only for loot. If they had come to kill, none of us would be here...
...principal military concern of the new government was to gain control of the most important road in Uganda, the 120-mile economic lifeline from Kampala to the Kenyan border. Carrying radios, tape recorders and assorted other loot that came their way with the fall of the Ugandan capital, 2,500 Tanzanian soldiers set off for the frontier at a leisurely pace in a caravan of twelve Land Rovers, three tanks, an armored personnel carrier and a Jeep with a mounted recoilless rifle. A second force, which literally moved at a walk because of a shortage of motor transport, headed north...
...Kampala, the celebrating was mixed with the pillaging of shops and government offices. At a five-hour victory rally, many spectators were carrying loot; one woman mounted a typewriter on her head, and another sat on a newly acquired office chair. Asked a speaker: "What are our new Cabinet ministers to think when they arrive at their offices and discover they don't have chairs to sit on?" A Tanzanian soldier sported the best memento of all: Amin's military cap, which Big Daddy apparently left behind in his haste to depart from the capital...
...minimum security Rahway State Prison, Thomas Robinson, 31, and Melvin Muldrow, 29. Prison officials had discovered, they said, that the culprits would sneak out during the designated visiting hours, practice the trade for which they were originally sentenced, and sneak back in before they were missed. A stash of loot worth almost $5,000 was found in the woods outside the prison...
...Lufthansa conspiracy included not only six stickup men but three airline employees and one "coach," who directed rehearsals for the operation. The ten were to receive fees ranging from $10,000 to Werner's $300,000. The rest of the loot apparently went to DiPalermo and another Lucchese capo, Paul Vario, one of the regulars at the old Roberts Lounge, who supervises rackets at Kennedy Airport for the mob. By now, the FBI suspects the money probably has been effectively dispersed through a maze of Mafia business channels...