Friday, September 28,1973
University Daily Kansan
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Amin Support Shrinking in Uganda
By COLIN LEGUM The London Observer
LONDON-Gen. Idi Amin reportedly is engaged in a new wave of killings, abductions, purges and arrests at a time when the U.S. has become the primary rule in Uganda seems to be growing.
Amin's base of support has been shrinking steadily ever since he led his successful military coup against Milton Obute in January 1971.
named because their families are still in Uganda, are privately appealing to African governments, and especially to the Nigerian leader, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, to take an initiative to stop the killing of Africans in Uganda.
Prominent Ugandan exiles, who fear to be
THEY ARE ALSO anxious to obtain a joint protest by African and other university centers to Armin about the fate of leading student activists at Makerere University and of the university secretary, Michael Sozi.
Sozi has disappeared without a trace. His
Anti-Cigarette Fight Going Up in Smoke
NEW YORK-Cancer experts said yesterday they were losing ground in their efforts to convince people to stop smoking cigarettes.
The per capita smoking rate declined sharply in the United States from 1967 to 1971, they said, but since then the rate has increased. In the countries reported the same problem, they said.
The problem was described at a meeting of leading cancer experts at the offices of IMS, which is the major sponsor of the program.
is a planning session for the third World Conference on Smoking and Health, in June 1972.
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disappearance coincides with a clash between the army and students at the
The Student Senate FALL ELECTIONS will be held October 17th & 18th
All Freshman Class Officers will be elected C.W.C. Senators
C. M. Kabenge, have been dismissed. So has a member of the influential Influence Marketing Board. All three, like Sozi, are prominent members of the Bagda cultural union.
(1) from Centennial, Nunemaker Pearson; 2 from North, 3 from Oliver) Senators from the School of Education (4), the School of Social Welfare (1) and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2) Grad School Representatives (1)graduate student from each of the 4 areas of study)
At the time of the coup most of the powerful Baganda community gave enthusiastic support to Amin because it hoped Obite's removal would lead to the restoration of their traditional leader, the Kahaka of Buzaua, Prince Ronald.
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The showdown between Amin and the students resulted from a statement by the president of the students at his institution that he disliked its own salaries during growing hardships and food shortages throughout the country. Essential commodities like salt are virtually unobtainable.
BUT AFTER MAKING overtures of the Baganda, Amin refused to restore the Kabaka. In the last two years his troops have abducted and killed scores in Baganda; hundreds more of the Baganda elite have fled the country.
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AMIN IS CONTINUING his policy of discharging leading public servants, especially from Buganda and Anakole provinces. He has said that Muslims—the element in the Uganda community on whom Amin has increasingly come to depend for the support he still needs.
Meanwhile, there are reports of continued killings among villagers in the countryside. These murders continue, despite Arin's efforts to crack down on the officers of the army would be court-martialled.
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