Word: ugandan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunfire, it was all over. The terrorists, according to Israeli reports, were dead, and the hostages were on the planes. It had taken less than a half-hour, and the transports were back in the air. Before they left, the Israelis badly damaged or destroyed the Soviet-made Ugandan air force MIGS that were parked on the field, thus eliminating any danger of being pursued. Casualties, for such a risky operation, were relatively light: two hostages died of wounds, and one Israeli soldier was injured slightly...
EVEN WHEN Moynihan's attacks are directed against a clearly evil target, like Uganda's Idi Amin, they are couched in language calculated to offend third world sensibilities. It was a gross distortion to claim, as Moynihan did, that it was "no accident" that "racist murderer" Idi Amin, Ugandan head-of-state, was president of the Organization for African Unity. Most African leaders deplore Amin and his policies, although they accepted him as formal head of the OAU--owing to the organization's yearly rotation system--to avoid a public rift...
Most of the countries that voted for this declaration are also racist, Chomsky said. He added that it is laughable when U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan calls Ugandan President I di Amin a "racist murderer...
Public Support. In Moynihan's case, the problem was his aggressive defense of U.S. democratic principles against a hostile Third World majority at the U.N. Since becoming ambassador in June, he offended African diplomats by correctly describing Ugandan President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as a "racist murderer" and indirectly criticizing other African nations because Amin is head of the Organization of African Unity. More recently, Moynihan antagonized Third World ambassadors with threats of retribution for supporting the U.N. General Assembly's resolution equating Zionism with racism...
Television Network. Amin waved the green flag to start a special OAU road rally, then jumped into his Maserati to participate briefly in the race; his assistant driver was a comely young Ugandan woman identified only as Amin's "very good friend" and as "Miss Sarah." At week's end Miss Sarah became Amin's second wife (he had four last year but divorced three of them...