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...point in employees' social security contributions and increases in the government-controlled prices of items ranging from rail and air tickets to cigarettes and gasoline (to $2.75 per gal.). Charged Georges Séguy, head of the Communist-dominated C.G.T. union: "This is not austerity, it's plunder...
...discipline, inadequate equipment and bad intelligence. Some roadblocks were unmanned, for example, leading Israeli troops to enter P.L.O.-held territory by mistake. As many as 21 tank were put out of commission because troops failed to follow orders. In less than a month, there were 182 cases of plunder by soldiers and officers. All this, commented the Jerusalem Post, was evidence that a "don't-give-a-damn" sickness "has spread over our lives in Israel during the past decade...
According to George Athmani, a free-lance journalist whose uncle was a Cabinet minister under Obote (and later was murdered by Amin), the plunder of Uganda's economy was exemplified when Amin secretly exported the entire sugar crop to Libya in 1975; payment in foreign currency was made through a hotel Amin owned in Tripoli...
...radio called on Ugandans "to find him wherever he is." Lule (pronounced Loo-lay), who will hold office until elections can be called, struck a more reflective note when he told his countrymen, "Ugandans from every tribe and every family have suffered from his murders, torture, terror, robbery and plunder. From this day, Ugandans must resolve never to allow a dictator to rule them again...
KAMPALA, Uganda--Thousands of Ugandans rallied in front of the Ugandan Parliament yesterday to celebrate the fall of Idi Amin, the country's defeated dictator. Looters, including some members of the Tanzanian army, joined Kampalans in the continued plunder of shops, offices and residences in the capital city...