UGANDA: Big Daddy's Doleful Legacy

New revelations about the ravages of his regime

Though Kampala, Uganda's capital, had fallen to a combined Tanzanian- Ugandan force two weeks ago, the main political prize continued to elude the new provisional government of President Yusufu Lule. Former President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada was still at large. He had been variously reported to have fled to Zaire, the Sudan or Iraq, as well as to several points around his own country. At week's end he was said to have been spotted in a village near the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale, traveling in a...

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