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...biggest problem facing Ugandans is finding enough to eat. The food shortage is most acute in the rural northeast, where U.N. officials estimate that 136,000 people are on the verge of starvation. Savage Karamojong tribesmen, armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles looted from one of Amin's arsenals, raid villages and harass the missionary outposts where relief food and medicine are distributed. Famine may eventually hit Kampala, where many workers earn 500 shillings ($68) or less a month, barely enough to purchase three bunches of green bananas, the staple of the diet. Complains a Kampala housewife: "Prices were never...
...radical Arab rejectionist front. And, Saudi Arabia, to the great surprise of both the U.S. and Egypt does not support the Egyptian policy. On the contrary, they embarked upon a course together with the radical elements in the Middle East, potentially very dangerous to the present regime in Raid...
...most common form of attack was for enraged bands of teen-agers to catch a Soviet soldier alone and beat him to death with rocks. In addition, shortly after the coup, twelve to 20 more members of the occupying army were reported to have been killed in a raid on their encampment five miles outside Kabul...
...seven men arrested Tuesday night in a drug raid at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency Hotel on Memorial Drive were arraigned in East Cambridge District Court Wednesday on charges of illegal possession of cocaine, Lt. Edwin Petersen of the Cambridge Detective Bureau said yesterday...
Cambridge Police found about five pounds of uncut cocaine worth an estimated $3-5 million during their raid Tuesday night on a tenth floor suite which the seven had rented earlier in the day, Petersen said...