UGANDA: A Tyrant in Trouble

This time, Big Daddy may really be on the ropes

"Kampala by March!"

That is the rallying cry of a determined armed force that entered southern Uganda a few weeks ago from northern Tanzania. The invaders, composed of recently organized bands of Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have...

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