Tanzania's drive against "that fool"nears Idi Amin 's capital
The scene at Uganda's Entebbe airport told it all. Abandoning their efforts to save the embattled regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada, Soviet and Iraqi advisers lined up to board Russian transports that had been hurriedly dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border....
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