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DAWN had not yet crept over the papyrus swamps along the Tanzanian shores of Lake Victoria when a force of 800 men calling themselves the Uganda People's Militia assembled in the darkness. As invasion forces go, it was small, but it was well-armed and the men were in high spirits. Most of them were former Ugandan soldiers and paramilitary police who had fled the country after the ouster of President Milton Obote, himself in exile in Tanzania. They had spent several months in secret training in Tanzania guerrilla camps, preparing to overthrow the military regime of Uganda...
...regrouped. Outnumbering the rebels by 5 to 1, they blasted them out of the garrison in less than an hour, reportedly killing most of the insurgents. The invaders in Masaka did not fare much better. By late afternoon, Amin's armor and air force (which also bombed the Tanzanian city of Bukoba on Lake Victoria, killing ten persons) had forced the militia to retreat to a position a few miles from the border. Thus, within less than 24 hours last week, the exiles' best hopes of ousting Amin had been effectively dashed...
...Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who has opposed Amin from the beginning, Amin sent an incoherent telegram: "I want to assure you that I love you very much and if you had been a woman I would have considered marrying you." Nyerere did not reply. Neighboring Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta watched Amin's wild career in silent horror. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda condemned Amin's actions as "terrible, abominable, shameful." Added the Times of Zambia: "Only in the befuddled mind of a punch-drunk ex-boxer could the fact be disputed that his operations against...
...withdrawal or not, buttresses the damn thing. The Corporation never deferred to the African voice. The OAU (Organization of African Unity) has said they want Gulf out. Frelemo, PAIGC, MPLA have said they want Gulf out. The Black Congressional Caucus has said they want Gulf out. Rutabanzibwa, the Tanzanian Ambassador, said so. The Vice President of Zambia said so. The overwhelming African voice has said to Bok that it is in our interest to have Gulf out. To have you out of Gulf and to have Gulf out of Angola. In this statement Bok not only says that...
Against their struggle is arrayed all the horrible technology that the Vietnam War has yielded to the science of human slaughter. In an interview with The Standard, a Tanzanian newspaper, Iko Carreira, a member of the MPLA Executive Committee, described recent developments in Angola...