Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he had skedaddled out of the country to escape an onrushing invasion, Uganda's self-anointed Field Marshal and President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada continued to cast a bloodstained shadow on his tormented land last week. U.S. officials reported that Big Daddy was in Libya seeking arms from his fellow Muslims in Tripoli for a possible counterattack against the new Ugandan government and its Tanzanian allies. Though Amin's chances of succeeding in such an effort were practically nil, at least some members of his shattered army professed to be eagerly awaiting his return. Claimed...
Meanwhile, there was considerable confusion as to Amin's whereabouts. Earlier in the week the self-styled Conqueror had displayed his ample, 300-lb. presence, bedecked in a blue air marshal's uniform and ribbons, in different parts of Jinja. Driving around the city in his favorite Citroën-Maserati, and followed by a fleet of Mercedes-borne aides, he alternately threatened his dispirited troops with execution and pleaded with them to withstand the "exhausted" enemy. Late Friday, Amin's voice came over Radio
Members of CSAAS last night requested that the newly-formed coalition provide manpower to publicize and marshal Thursday's demonstration. They also called for a "mass telephone blitz" of President Bok's and Dean Rosovsky's telephones Thursday to show support for the Afro-American Studies Department...
...long last, the brutal regime of Uganda's Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada had seemed to be drawing to an ignominious close. A force of 20,000 invading Tanzanian troops and Ugandan dissidents had laid seige to Kampala and was lobbing heavy artillery shells into the capital. Thousands of Africans and Europeans had fled into neighboring Kenya. Amin's own army, 20,000 strong, had either defected to the invaders or disappeared into the bush. But at week's end Big Daddy seemed to have won at least a temporary reprieve. A force of 2,000 Libyan...
...three. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker is planning a foray. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan, fearful of not winning big enough if he does come in, is petrified that he will not be nominated at all if he stays out. And up in Durham, waiting for the call to marshal the state's Democrats behind their true love, Senator Edward Kennedy, sits the fiercest of New Hampshire's liberals, a female pol with blond hair, sculpted features and the un likely name Dudley Dudley...