The World: Over Lake & Turf With Big Daddy

John Osman, the British Broadcasting Corporation's East African staff correspondent, was one of the few Western newsmen in Kampala last week. Returning to Nairobi, Osman cabled this report to TIME:

It was a quiet Friday afternoon at Entebbe airport, near Kampala. A couple of dozen Americans who work for Uganda Airlines either were enjoying an afternoon nap on a hot and humid day, or were out on the golf course. Two of them—Bob Coder, from Florida, and his wife Virginia—strolled out the front door of the Lake Victoria Hotel and there, to their surprise, was President Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada....

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