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...offer was reportedly made in Paris by Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet Ambassador to France, to his Israeli counterpart, Ovadia Sofer. According to Israeli radio, Vorontsov called the breaking of relations a serious mistake and "an emotional reaction" that the Soviet Union has come to regret. In Washington, Administration officials welcomed the Soviet proposal, even though the U.S. remains opposed to a greater Soviet role in the region...
...almost certain one is coming. "You've got all those toys around. Someone's going to fool with them sooner or later. Look at Hiroshima. The Bomb was already used once. Things are building all the time. The Middle East, Central America. I listen to the radio a lot when I drive my tractor, and they were just sayin' the other day that there was--what was the name of that country? Pakistan--they were sayin' that Pakistan might get the Bomb. So nobody's safe. No, I don't mind the missiles on my land. If they...
...went on to overpower Obote loyalists at Bombo Barracks, 20 miles from the capital of Kampala. Finally, on Saturday, a column of about 20 tanks, jeeps and buses filled with heavily armed troops rolled into Kampala. Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings of as many as 100,000 people since his election in 1980 to succeed the even more bloodstained dictator Idi Amin Dada...
...international airport at Entebbe. Before long, the roughly 2,000 soldiers patrolling the streets were hard pressed to keep order as the celebration degenerated into a looting spree. Stores were smashed open, and one pilfering soldier was shot dead. A few hours later, a spokesman began broadcasting on radio to announce a twelve-hour curfew. Gunfire could be heard after the "bloodless coup" as rebel troops tried to flush Obote loyalists out of a Kampala barracks...
DIED. James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 79, bandleader and self-styled "Old Perfessor" of radio's Kollege of Musical Knowledge from 1933 to 1949, whose weekly mix of dance music, comedy and quiz questions drew as many as 20 million listeners and earned him a remarkable $1 million in 1940; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A popular USO entertainer in World War II, he had several hits, including On a Slow Boat to China and the nonsense ditty Three Little Fishes. He retired from performing in 1950 and worked thereafter for the Christian Science Church...