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During the four years that he has ruled the East African nation of Uganda, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada has earned a worldwide reputation as a loudmouthed buffoon. In fact, Big Daddy is a murderous and perhaps mentally unbalanced bully whose reign of terror, according to one study by the International Commission of Jurists, has led to the deaths of anywhere from 25,000 to 250,000 Ugandans (out of a population of 11 million). One of Amin's ugliest characteristics is his tendency to use human beings as political pawns, as in the case of a British...
Today, says Ambassador Amin Hilmy II, the Arab League's representative at the U.N., "the picture that was painted of us-as mentally retarded cowards who couldn't handle modern machinery and would not stand and fight-has been disproved. Now Americans know that's wrong. Instead of our having to plead with them to listen, they ask us to tell them more...
...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...
Insane Leader. While his country languishes, Amin loses no opportunity to nail down his reputation as the world's most unstable-if not downright insane -leader, publicly lecturing world leaders on their shortcomings and quarreling with neighboring African states. Two weeks ago he let it be known that he planned to make a state visit to Britain this summer, where he hopes-inexplicably-to meet with some of the 50,000 Asians whom, as he delicately put it, "I booted out" in 1972. Unsurprisingly, a Foreign Office spokesman said that such a visit was "unlikely...
...Daddy last much longer? He travels only under heavy guard, mostly of trusted mercenaries from Sudan and Zaïre. Moreover, given the murderous anarchy that exists in Uganda today, there is-and can be-no immediately obvious heir. With Amin slated to become president of the 42-member Organization of African Unity in June, his neighbors are growing fidgety at the prospect. At least five African heads of state have quietly let it be known that they would support a coup against Amin, and at least three others that they are not at all opposed to the idea...