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Nobody ever knows exactly what game Idi Amin is playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard...
Jimmy Carter made no effort to hide his feelings. The "horrible murders" of an archbishop and two Cabinet ministers in Uganda, he said during his press conference, "have disgusted the entire civilized world." Two days later Uganda's Idi Amin Dada appeared to retaliate by forbidding some 200 Americans to leave his country and summoning them to a meeting this week. Most Amin watchers expected that he would inflict nothing more drastic than oratory and theatrics on the Americans; he himself issued reassurances. But with the unstable dictator, no one could be sure...
Cuban Delegation. This time, the major power was the U.S. At his press conference earlier in the week, Jimmy Carter had declared that recent events in Uganda-the reported murder of Archbishop Janani Luwum and two of Amin's Cabinet ministers-had "disgusted the entire civilized world." Carter added that he supported a British demand that the U.N. should "go into Uganda to assess the horrible murders that apparently are taking place in that country-the persecution of those who have aroused the ire of Mr. Amin...
...noon Friday, the White House had received a rambling, 1,000-word cable from Amin to Carter. After explaining away the death of the archbishop, Amin declared that he had heard reports from Nairobi that "5,000 American Marines are supposed to come and rescue 250 American missionaries in Uganda." This would be impossible, Amin continued, because "the Americans in Uganda are happy and are scattered all over the country," and, in any case, "Uganda has the strength to crush any invaders." Amin, who thinks that all his difficulties are inflicted upon him by Jews, accused Carter of being...
Amin claimed that he was responding to an attempted coup hatched by Obote, who lives in exile in Tanzania. A week earlier, as Amin tells the story, his suppression of the coup had led to the arrests of Archbishop Luwum and the former Cabinet ministers. Amin still insisted that the three men had died in a traffic accident while trying to escape arrest, but refugees told a far different story. They charged that the victims had been taken to an army barracks, where they were bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled...