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Born. To General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, about 48, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, about 22, newest of the four wives allowed to Amin by the Moslem religion: a daughter, her second child, his 14th; in Kampala...
...forum sponsored by the NCLC to charge that Imamu Amin Baraka (Leroi Jones) is an agent of the CIA, a fight broke out at 9:40 p.m. Seven people were stabbed, none seriously...
...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...
...Amin claims to admire the U.S., yet he has gone out of his way to needle President Nixon and sent him a July 4th greeting wishing him a "speedy recovery" from Watergate...
...Britain, which sort of made the whole club possible by at one time ruling virtually all the other members, came in for some buffeting. Uganda called Britain a hotbed of racism. British Prime Minister Edward Heath suggested that if anybody was racist, it was Uganda's President Idi Amin. He accused Amin of "callous inhumanity" in his expulsion of 50,000 Asians. (Amin was not present; he had stayed home, perhaps mindful of how he had deposed Milton Obote while Obote was at the Singapore conference...