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...collapse of Amin's forces spread, Kampala announced that ex-servicemen, policemen and even prison officials were being thrown into the regime's defense. Amin appealed to the Organization of African Unity to persuade Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere to call off his invasion. But the OAU leaders, meeting in Kenya, made only a halfhearted attempt to do so. They seemed to agree with Milton Obote, whom Amin overthrew as Uganda's President in 1971. In Tanzania, where he has been living in exile, Obote declared, "Now is the time for Amin to pay the price...
...would listen?at the U.N., in diplomatic exchanges, and in a shower of communiques. Peking also claimed that Viet Nam was mobilizing for war by drafting recruits at a rate that surpassed the height of the war against Saigon and the U.S., and by calling 200,000 ex-servicemen back under arms...
Some of the sharpest criticism of Smith's policies came in the cities and towns, where terrorism is increasing. In Salisbury the Prime Minister was heckled by a group of ex-servicemen still committed to the idea of a military solution. Some critics called the referendum a "mandate for disaster," and one young veteran taunted Smith with the words of another current song: "Will someone tell us why we fight?/ Why what once was wrong is now what's right?" Nobody tried to explain that, by fighting off political change for so many years, the Smith government...
...other hand, the commission would consider the U.S.'s 1.4 million servicemen to be employed. They are not included in the labor force statistics now; this made sense when most servicemen were removed from the ranks of job seekers by the draft, but is outdated in the era of the volunteer Army. Including them would reduce the jobless rate...
...arrival, the Vice Premier was to be given full honors on the south lawn of the White House: a 19-gun salute ringing out from cannon on the ellipse, national anthems played by the Marine Band, honor guards from the five uniformed services. Among the battle flags the servicemen were to carry on their standards: pennants commemorating U.S. combat against the Chinese in the Korean War. Carter faced a protocol problem of his own in his welcoming speech. Should he mention China's Premier and Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng? His advisers said yes, that prudence dictated some acknowledgment...