Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy of infamous crimes. Furious, Amin decided to strike back in the way he knows best: bullying. Though there are perhaps no more than 200 or so Americans living in Uganda (missionaries, oil company and airline employees), Amin forbade them to leave the country, and sent his soldiers to round them up-together with their "chickens, goats, pigs or any other animals"-and deliver them to the capital city of Kampala on Monday morning of this week (later postponed to Wednesday...
...guided tour began when I was being driven from Kampala to Entebbe in Mr. Bob's car. The President passed by on the other side of the road in his Range Rover, stopped, turned round and joined us as we also stopped. He ordered out of his vehicle his bodyguard, an Acholi, from the tribe that, it is alleged, is being massacred in northern Uganda. The bodyguard then traveled in Mr. Bob's car while our little British journalistic group drove with the President...
First he took us round the quite beautiful Entebbe Botanical Gardens, lush with great trees and sited magnificently on the biggest fresh-water lake in Africa, Lake Victoria, by itself almost as big as Scotland. He talked to us about his plans to develop old colonial buildings there. Then he drove us over the golf course, right across the seventh green. It was not just the President's car crossing the sacrosanct turf but Mr. Bob's as well, in close attendance behind. Plainly the President is not a golfer. But he pointed out to us the spot...
WALTHAM, Ma.--Employing a strong team effort, sparked by the red-hot shooting of captain Katherine Fulton, the Harvard women's basketball team trounced Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU), 74-57, last night here at Bentley College in the opening round of the MAIAW tournament, the Massachusetts State basketball championship for women...
Harvard will meet Bentley College tomorrow at noon in the semi-final round...