Word: uganda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attired in a flashy crimson shirt and surrounded by security police, Apolo Milton Obote, the President of Uganda, was making his way through a cheering mob. He was leaving Kampala's Lugogo Stadium, where his ruling People's Congress had just approved his "Common Man's Charter," which was designed to turn his country into a socialist one-party state. While the army band blared out the party song, "Uganda Is Marching Forward," three shots rang out. Obote, 44, a onetime herdboy who led his country (pop. 8,000,000) to independence seven years ago, clutched...
Obote was rushed to a hospital, where doctors said that he had suffered a head wound but would recover. His government declared a state of emergency, banned the small opposition Democratic Party, and kept a watchful eye on the Buganda area, largest of the four former tribal kingdoms within Uganda. In transforming his country into a republic, Obote has harshly suppressed many of Buganda's people. Three years ago, Obote's troops drove the once powerful Kabaka of Buganda, who was known as "King Freddie," from his palace in Kampala...
...individual positions. Brown offers outstanding talent. Sparkplug of the forward line is co-captain Herman Ssebazza, a native of Uganda. A wing. Ssebazza was selected to the All-American team last year...
...ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black soldiers mutinied in Torit, slaughtering 78 Arab officers. The terror had begun. Villages were harassed by the army and by rebels in turn; thousands of tribesmen were killed. Refugees flocked south into Uganda and the Congo; today, about 70,000 black Sudanese live in the two countries...
...problem is complicated by racial overtones. In many of the new African nations, including Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, there are not enough qualified black judges to fill the benches in the higher courts. As a result, most of the senior judges are white -though many of them, like Skinner, have become citizens of the countries in which they serve. According to present standards, black law students, now in the various national universities, will not be eligible to become judges for another five years...