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Life goes on in Uganda. President Idi Amin took to the air waves of Radio Kampala to, assure his constituents that he had survived yet another assassination attempt. A grenade had indeed hit him in the face, he told them, but it rebounded outside his car before exploding. Waxing theological, the many-sided statesman reminded his audience that “All leaders have enemies. No one can live for 200 years. He will die when God wills.” It’s reported that soon after the assassination attempt God willed the deaths of 2,000 of Amin’s enemies.

When Democratic platform writers gathered in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington last week, they received a letter from recently elected ADA President George McGovern urging them not to adopt a set of “bland generalities”; but, apparently considering the fate of McGovern’s own platform, the committee rejected the Senator’s advice, and wrote a document submerging all the controversial issues in a soft fog of ambiguity. Much of the fuzziness was in deference to candidate Carter, who had come out in Ohio against a “wish-box” platform. But most of it was spontaneously generated-because the Democrats smell victory this time around, and have resolved not to lead with the chin.

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Life goes on in Uganda. President Idi Amin took to the air waves of Radio Kampala to, assure his constituents that he had survived yet another assassination attempt. A grenade had indeed hit him in the face, he told them, but it rebounded outside his car before exploding. Waxing theological, the many-sided statesman reminded his audience that “All leaders have enemies. No one can live for 200 years. He will die when God wills.” It’s reported that soon after the assassination attempt God willed the deaths of 2,000 of Amin’s enemies.

When Democratic platform writers gathered in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington last week, they received a letter from recently elected ADA President George McGovern urging them not to adopt a set of “bland generalities”; but, apparently considering the fate of McGovern’s own platform, the committee rejected the Senator’s advice, and wrote a document submerging all the controversial issues in a soft fog of ambiguity. Much of the fuzziness was in deference to candidate Carter, who had come out in Ohio against a “wish-box” platform. But most of it was spontaneously generated-because the Democrats smell victory this time around, and have resolved not to lead with the chin.