Word: umar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...