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This fall several nonfictional studies of the Ugandan dictator are to be published in the U.S. One, Idi Amin: Death-light of Africa (Little, Brown; $8.95), was written pseudonymously by a white civil servant who spent 20 years in Uganda; another, Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa (Sheed Andrews and McMeel; $7.95), is by Thomas Patrick Melady, the last U.S. ambassador in Kampala, and his wife Margaret. In his short I Love Idi Amin (Fleming H. Revell; paperback, 95?), an African clergyman, Bishop Festo Kivengere, has written of the trials of the church and churchmen in Amin's Uganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy in Books | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) graduated from the old Littauer School, and Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III is currently enrolled in the MPA program. But for the most part, the school aims to prepare the non-elected public servant. Recent graduates include Congressional legislative aides, staff analysts, a state cabinet secretary and agency heads. Jackson is quick to point out that the school is not training "a racist and sexist" cabal of private advisers like the best and the brightest of the early '60s. The school has a flexible...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Harvard Goes From Bundy To Allison | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen, 56, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is the most enigmatic international civil servant since the days of Dag Hammarskjeid, the mystic who died in a plane crash while serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations. An economist by training, Witteveen always carries a pocket calculator, which he whips into action during esoteric discussions of international finance. A strict adherent of the obscure Sufi religious cult,* Witteveen, despite the intense pressures of his job, finds time to meditate every morning and evening. He sees no conflict between the practice of the dismal science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Austere Mystic | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

They made their move in the middle of the night, almost apologizing for their coup. Shortly before 2 o'clock last Tuesday morning, a group of officers descended on the Prime Minister's residence in Rawalpindi. "Sir, the troops have come," a servant advised Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The Prime Minister took the news stoically, gathered his wife and children on the lawn of the official residence, had coffee and ordered his bags packed. He then moved to the Governor's Mansion in the nearby hill resort of Murree, some 30 miles away. Behind padlocked iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Sir, the Troops Have Come' | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Both are, in fact, a little dotty, to the delight of their native servant Ibrahim. Constantly being fired by the colonel and rehired by the Memsahib, Ibrahim cherishes Tusker's curses and colorful tirades ("I'll have both their guts for garters!") and repeats them to himself for days afterward. An unabashed Anglophile, he even admires the way his employers age. "The English," he thinks, "once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comic Coda to a Song of India | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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