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...unexpected seizure is only the most recent tension-filled incident in weakening U.S.-Ugandan relations...
...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...
Last week Amin offered another surprise. He suddenly invited a small group of foreign correspondents in Africa-including TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs-to Kampala for a one-day visit that included a rare interview with the Ugandan dictator. Griggs' report...
...STRIFE WITHIN HIS ARMY: "You should not say bad things about the Ugandan army. I have served at one time or another with the British, Italian and Indian armies, even with...