Word: ugandans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another $3,400 out of a bemused Kampala rally. Whitehall officials, who obviously had not yet lost their talent for repartee, said the Foreign Ministry had received no money yet. But, they added, they would know just what to do with it if it arrived: turn it over to Ugandan Asians in Britain as compensation for the losses they suffered when they were summarily evicted from their country by Big Daddy...
...unexpected seizure is only the most recent tension-filled incident in weakening U.S.-Ugandan relations...
Last week the Ugandan dictator sent President Nixon a telegram wishing him a "speedy recovery" from Watergate, but warned Nixon to stop meddling in the political and economic affairs of other nations...
...General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada announces that an invasion of his East African country is about to take place. The "guerrillas" and "spies" may emanate from neighboring Rwanda, but more often they are said to be coming from Tanzania, which in fact did allow a band of Ugandan rebels to cross the border last September in a vain effort to overthrow Amin. After that, both Tanzania and Uganda agreed to move their troops at least six miles back from their common border...
...ever since. Two months ago, he warned that 800 men were ready to march against him. Nothing happened. Last week a series of war bulletins broadcast by Radio Uganda sounded like the start of a full-scale invasion. First the radio announced that a 3,500-man army of Ugandan exiles, Tanzanian soldiers and some of the Asians whom Amin expelled last year were poised to attack. Next day it reported that the invasion force had crossed the border and reached Masaka, 80 miles from the capital, before being driven back. The radio solemnly warned that a second invasion...