It was election time in two important areas of Africa. In steaming Uganda, a black former herdboy was picked to steer the divided little land toward independence Oct. 9. In the sprawling Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, a white, burly former locomotive engineer won another chance to pull his disintegrating country together. The shoo-in victors:
ยป Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote, 37, achieved his easy triumph with the sup port of the country's most powerful tribal monarch, Kabaka ("Freddie") Mutesa II of Buganda. Election day brought a heavy turnout; shy Pygmies emerged from Western Uganda's forests to vote, and...
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