Wing [or threatening] to attend.
Of counse, the popular press finds Amin's Jubilee Spirit a hit unpalatable because he's black.
But there is no gutter racism in the Sundays; they bother to mention his massacre of tens of thousands of people. It is only the Dora Blochs and Archbishop Luwwums of this world who get a Amin is a royalist with a reason. It is not just the Crown Agents who keep him in business. Already this year more than 100 Land Rovers and trucks have been bought by Uganda. British Leyland denies selling vehicles to the Amin regime: ICI, Dunlop and Barclays Bank names with a big stake in Uganda Britain is Uganda's major The top Sunday papers vie with each other In their venom lowards Idi Amin. A lew Observer published a report by Amin's doctor on the lunacy of the syphilitic sadist.
Not to be outdone The Sunday Times has jus inted the exclusive revelations of the murder of Dor Bloch and the Archbishop of Uganda. The story is neally timed to coincide with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference which Amin was promisWhat neither paper mentioned - and it Is surely worth a few Ines In Jubliee week - Is thai the Crown Agents, the concer responsible for all Crown lands, deals with tens of thousands of pounds worth of transactions with Uganda each year.
respectable just don't the armyfurther. In over Kampala.
ате household gant black TRUTH weeks ago The campaigns Mau Times trade partner. For example, 232 million of coffee exports reached Britain from Uganda last year. Ninety-five per cent of the revenue went on luxury goods for the ruling clite and on arms, Sixty-five percent of national spending goes on Amin's relationship with Her Majesty goes back a bit 1971 Milton Obote was out of the country - ironically at a Commonwealth Conference — when Amin's Israeli tanks and Israeli-crained troops took Her Majesty's Government distingnished itself by being the first government to recognise the regime. And the same newspapers which now fulminate against this arro- streams man fell over themselves to welcome the loyal suhject who had got rid of the 'pinko" Obote.
They had good reason to trust him. He had joined the Kings African Rifles in 1946, distinguishing himself in the against the Mau rebels leading attacks on the terrorists and repeatedly torturing and killing men suspected of Mau Mau sympathies', ac cording to the York His record in the ranks made him a natural candidate for leadership as the wind of change swept Africa and Britain opied for neo-colonial revices. Trained as an officer at the School of Infantry in Wiltshire he made it to army Chief of Staff in 1966.
With the undercover help of British businessmen, and the more open support of the Israeli regime, he began plotcoincidences the coup came just at the moment when Thome. The Remucturing of Capital, Clam Struggle and the Stal The Conference will Hart mid morning on Sacurdav 200 lub, 45 Bradford Unteers, ant wil or Manday mering plenty sessions discusin will be hekh it workshops amanged in sequence Nec Coicnial Slate, Regionalism, Local Sate. State Arpersh.e KOVEMEN JO NEARE ELECTROM COMIC TO DRACTS CUT CONTRE Ichn Humpines, Cente for Latin American Studies Dend Bedford St South.
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oramia NO NEW PAMPHLETS from B Christine Davidson Marra Nont meeling Obote was trying to persuade the Commonwealth Heads of State of the need for a total arus embargo ou South Africa It is no surprise that nowa days the power behind the Kampala throne is a group of (white former Brush army officers.
But it is also no surprise that, suddenly, British im perialism and its press tinds Amin's lovable British quali ties — royalism, regimental pride and ruthlessness — less to their taste.
The Kremlin now looks favourubly on Amin, supply ing him with Mig jets. And the collapse of the Ugandan economy and the growth of the opposition have convinced Britain that Amin is not the stable bulwark they had hoped for That is the reason - and the only reason - why they don't want him at the jubilee CHRIS O'BRIEN Apar from short opening and closint Trado Union and Labour Movement Labor Sat 23 June, Faderation
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