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Kampala Tragedy (Cont’d) It is four years since the overthrow of the sanguinary tyrant Idi Amin as ruler of Uganda, but peace and public safety have not returned to this strife-torn country. Idi Amin’s rival and successor, Colonel Milton Obote, has continued to preside over a tumultuous environment in a largely tribal context. On one side is the powerful though famously undisciplined Uganda army, pitted against various regional rebel movements, the biggest of which is the full-fledged guerrilla National Resistance Army. The most recent incident, brought to public attention by a courageous church newspaper, was the slaughter of two hundred civilians, mostly women and adolescents, at a camp at Kikyusa by men who seem unquestionably to have been government troops in official uniform. The two hundred were among 100,000 civilians rounded up by the government and put in resettlement camps as part of a drive against the guerrillas. The opposition claims that two hundred more civilians have died in the last months in “accidents;” often meaning they were bound hand and foot and left to die in thé jungle. Almost no charges have ever been filed against any of those detained. The government ascribed the killings to “bandits,” meaning members of the National Resistance Army.

Seville Two in ’92 It is only nine years away from one of the rip-roaringest occasions of the century, namely the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, and none too soon to begin work. Consequently, the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris, which has such anniversaries in its keeping, has named two cities to share the celebrations of the discovery, Chicago and Seville. Chicago was the seat of the great Columbian fair of 1892 and is a natural choice for the repeat. Seville was the center of the entire web of the Indies, the seat of administration of the Spanish American empire, and is still the home of its fabled archives. It was in Seville, moreover, that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella formally commissioned the voyage of the Genoese navigator and sent him on his way with their blessing and their provisions. This Andalusian capital does not expect to be able to create anything like the spectacles awaited in Chicago, where preliminary calculations estimate the attendance of 65 million tourists. Seville modestly hopes for 25 million. Just in case time seems to hang heavy between now and then, the Expositions Bureau gave Paris permission to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution between April and October 1989.

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Kampala Tragedy (Cont’d) It is four years since the overthrow of the sanguinary tyrant Idi Amin as ruler of Uganda, but peace and public safety have not returned to this strife-torn country. Idi Amin’s rival and successor, Colonel Milton Obote, has continued to preside over a tumultuous environment in a largely tribal context. On one side is the powerful though famously undisciplined Uganda army, pitted against various regional rebel movements, the biggest of which is the full-fledged guerrilla National Resistance Army. The most recent incident, brought to public attention by a courageous church newspaper, was the slaughter of two hundred civilians, mostly women and adolescents, at a camp at Kikyusa by men who seem unquestionably to have been government troops in official uniform. The two hundred were among 100,000 civilians rounded up by the government and put in resettlement camps as part of a drive against the guerrillas. The opposition claims that two hundred more civilians have died in the last months in “accidents;” often meaning they were bound hand and foot and left to die in thé jungle. Almost no charges have ever been filed against any of those detained. The government ascribed the killings to “bandits,” meaning members of the National Resistance Army.

Seville Two in ’92 It is only nine years away from one of the rip-roaringest occasions of the century, namely the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, and none too soon to begin work. Consequently, the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris, which has such anniversaries in its keeping, has named two cities to share the celebrations of the discovery, Chicago and Seville. Chicago was the seat of the great Columbian fair of 1892 and is a natural choice for the repeat. Seville was the center of the entire web of the Indies, the seat of administration of the Spanish American empire, and is still the home of its fabled archives. It was in Seville, moreover, that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella formally commissioned the voyage of the Genoese navigator and sent him on his way with their blessing and their provisions. This Andalusian capital does not expect to be able to create anything like the spectacles awaited in Chicago, where preliminary calculations estimate the attendance of 65 million tourists. Seville modestly hopes for 25 million. Just in case time seems to hang heavy between now and then, the Expositions Bureau gave Paris permission to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution between April and October 1989.