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...long last, the brutal regime of Uganda's Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada had seemed to be drawing to an ignominious close. A force of 20,000 invading Tanzanian troops and Ugandan dissidents had laid seige to Kampala and was lobbing heavy artillery shells into the capital. Thousands of Africans and Europeans had fled into neighboring Kenya. Amin's own army, 20,000 strong, had either defected to the invaders or disappeared into the bush. But at week's end Big Daddy seemed to have won at least a temporary reprieve. A force of 2,000 Libyan...
...weeks the Tanzania-Uganda war had been in a stalemate. Half the invading force had halted near the town of Mpigi, some 30 miles south of Kampala, while the other half was stalled on a road about 40 miles west of the Ugandan capital. The two-pronged attack apparently had been stopped by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. During the course of the five-month war, Nyerere had been reluctant to send his troops all the way to Kampala. He had hoped that the invasion would lead to a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Ugandans, both military and civilian, that would then...
...running from Libya through Chad (where Libyan-supported guerrillas now control the government), Uganda and Somalia. Gaddafi's involvement, however, carries wider implications for Africa. Libyan planes in support of Amin used Nairobi International Airport, thus placing Kenya on Amin's side and in opposition to Tanzania. Ugandan exiles in Nairobi and elsewhere have vowed vengeance on Kenya...
Anticipating victory over Amin, Ugandan exiles from around the world met last week in Tanzania to form a provisional government. Conspicuously absent was former President Milton Obote, who had been overthrown by Big Daddy in 1971. Never a particularly popular leader, Obote had alienated many of his countrymen with his authoritarian manner and socialist rhetoric, and particularly with his ruthless efforts to crush Uganda's ancient tribal kingdoms in the interests of national unity...
After pondering the issues, Judge Warren sided with the Government, at least for the moment. "I'd want to think a long, hard time before I'd give the hydrogen bomb to [Ugandan President] Idi Amin," he said. Warren temporarily prohibited the article from being published and scheduled another hearing for this week. He had a quick rebuttal to worries about the freedom of the press in this particular case. Said he: "You can't speak freely when you're dead...