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...signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody...
...sooner had Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, accepted the post of Ugandan Ambassador to Egypt last month than General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada changed his mind. Deciding that he could not part with Elizabeth or her talents, he appointed her instead Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ugandan observers consider the promotion a practical rather than romantic measure. Not only does Big Daddy, a Moslem, already have four wives, but he is sadly short of Cabinet talent among his cronies, mostly former NCOS and privates. Before Elizabeth's appointment, he had flayed the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
Uganda's unpredictable General Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada may be a Moslem, but last week he was sounding off on equal rights for women. Suiting action to his words, he appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Egypt Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were...
Meanwhile, Uganda's irrepressible General Idi Amin Dada, whose graveyard humor has frequently been directed at President Nixon, launched a "Bananas for Britain" campaign to help the British through their winter of discontent. Amin personally donated $1,400 and squeezed another $3,400 out of a bemused Kampala rally. Whitehall officials, who obviously had not yet lost their talent for repartee, said the Foreign Ministry had received no money yet. But, they added, they would know just what to do with it if it arrived: turn it over to Ugandan Asians in Britain as compensation for the losses they...
...imagined that I had been granted Kissingeresque powers to rearrange national sovereignties on the map of Asia." Aikman posed with the villagers for a high school-type photo and exited gracefully. In Uganda, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs momentarily forgot his manners when President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada admired his necktie. "I should have remembered," confesses Griggs, "that when a Moslem admires something of yours, you give it to him." Good-naturedly, Big Daddy, a former heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda, punched Griggs in the chest. Griggs, incidentally, did not give Big Daddy the necktie...