(18 Apr 1979) RR7916A UGANDA THE TAKEOVER
When Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada threw out Dr. Milton Obote to become the second President since Uganda's independence, Ugandans saw Amin as a hero. They have had eight years in which to change their minds. Now the world knows the truth about his brutal excesses, his orgies of violence, his reign of repression. Grisly evidence of his atrocities was found when Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles ended a seven-month war against Amin by taking Kampala and sending Amin fleeing for refuge. In his
place: Yusef Lule - a mild-mannered academic who has led the Ugandan National Liberation Front from exile in Tanzania. The task now facing Lule is to unite his people and move them forward together to rebuild a country brought to the verge of destruction by a power-mad tyrant.

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