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...medical crisis to keep public attention away from some grim news that added to his reputation as black Africa's most bloody-minded dictator. Shortly before the operation, Amin announced that he had rejected an appeal by Liberian President William Tolbert to spare the lives of twelve Ugandans who were to be executed later in the week for plotting to overthrow Big Daddy's regime. The public executions of the twelve, along with three others, took place on schedule. In Nairobi, eight Kenyans who had spent four months in Ugandan prisons on charges of spying said that they...
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...
...country's northwestern region; no further mention of the festivities was made in following days. The anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...
Goon Squads. There was an amoeboid explosion of rumor after 13 Ugandan military officers and civil servants sought asylum in Kenya, claiming that their lives were threatened by Amin's security forces. Soon reports had "hundreds" of innocent Ugandan refugees fleeing the murderous wrath of Big Daddy's goon squads-a not uncommon occurrence in Uganda. Nairobi's Daily-Nation reported that Amin was being treated for his wounds in "a friendly country, probably Libya...
...mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed to reach him by telephone. Then Radio Uganda announced that Amin was "very much alive and very fit" and had been enjoying a belated honeymoon with his fifth wife, Sarah, a former paratrooper in the Ugandan army. Nothing was said of an unsuccessful coup...