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t - -j -i ; 1 sat., srntus t, invyirgCIaROUNA TIMES -I L - i i i 'i 1 1 il ill ii himi . : -,.. 4 name gust) suing! im-f UGANDA Death Still Stalks IAN1 Murders, rob beries, and other instances of indiscriminate violence) continue to plague Ugan da, with shootings by arm' ed uniformed person; reported daily in majoi towns such as Kampals and Jinja. During the last weekent in August, in Kampah alone, unidentified per: ' sons killed twelve and in jured thirty. The dead in? ; elude two doctor! fron : the city health departmen ! who stepped outside on; of their homes to in vestigate a nearby burst oj . gunfire. " . Ugandan President' Godfrey Binaisa and th Uganda National Con sultative Council havf ' taken various steps to curb the violence. A montt ago, soliders were recalled to their barracks, and street patrols and the man ning of roadblocks were ; handed over to the police; The government has called for the turning in of unauthorized weapons. and has helped locajp; ciuzcns organize vigiionic groups. . By mid-Aug authorities began iss pounding car without; license plates and regista-i tion. ' The problem seems never-ending, however and the government's con trol o its own police and soldiers seems tenuous at best? This is illustrated byt a recent consultative coun4 cil directive that from nowf -.i j' i. j i: ' on suiuiers ana puiwcj should be forbidden to, fire at random. Although much of the.! trouble stems from the, state of near chaos follow- ing the ouster of Amjn there- is widespread! speculation that the! v iuivuvv . aa ,viuiivw rather-than Just political haymaking by a criminal element. Admittedly, soon after. the fall of Kampala, 4,000 prisoners were reieaseo, including persons con- victed of theft and murder. And both, weapons and uniforms left in caches around the country by Amin's forces, have - become common! property, making it easy it impersonate authorized, military or police personnel. Proponents of the theory that at least some of the violence is political! ly motivated, however point to an incident pn August 28. On that even-; ing two fuel trucks were found parked in the midst! oi me iNue Mansion note, complex where a number of governmental Officials' live. According to the of ficial sources, a plot to, blow them up with, anti-' tank rockets was un covered just in time. Some observers rajse, the possibility that the cur rent reign of violence is being exploited, if not planned, by political op-i ponents of President tunaisa. sources vanousiy , . at .. ) suggest tnai iouowers oi Idi Amin, of Yusufu JLule, or of -Milton Obote all former Ugandan presidents -may be inv, plicated. ; Obote, the elected presi dent ousted by Amin in 1971, - supports current,! political developments in-j Uganda, however, and has j dent Binaisa. He is believ ed by reliable sources to feel that the time is not right for his return from exile In.Tanzania to live in Uganda, much less for his J return to Ugandan politics. The possibility of a new power bid by Amin Is taken more seriously. President : Binaisa has charged in recent weeks that Amin has recruited 30,000-itroni military force,r -now grouping n Zaire and southern Sudan in prcperation for an assault on Uganda, Sudan denies it harbors any such Amiri "units on its border. Inside Uganda, a major Grt of the security efforts ve been directed toward flushing- out -former members of the notorious. Amiasecttrity iolice,the fresearcatitireau. charging that the DlSA had "shown hesitancy with respect to our policy of clemancy." ' "We receive letters every week from people wanting . explanations; about their relatives in prison," Neto said, imply ing that many had been ar rested unjustly. The Angolan' president' referred to problems of abuse and beauracratic authority, and to the need to build a greater sense of national unity. Applying a just policy, he stressed "is not a sign of sentimen talism but of conscious political science," Appointed to head the new Ministry of Interior, which will assume DISA's functions was Kundi Paihama, former provin cial commissioner of s Cunene, on the border with Namibia. The appointment of Paihama, a southerner, was.: in cart, a gesture mation !nd Security- towards national unity (DISA) and created a new the ruling MPA's tradi Ministry of interior, tional base of greatest sup.; i Yusufu Lule. who serv ed briefly as head of state ' following Amin's ouster. is also actively opposing' , tbe Binaisa government, but lie is not suspected of 'having any significant! military force behind him. In late. July he was reported to be forming an .Opposition coalition, in iCjbdjng a number of the more right-wing elements . which joined the Uganda I NationaJ Liberation Front (UNjLFh at the Moshi jtmference in March. It was to be called the Ugan- dA Democratic Union and was to work first of all for; the ending of Tanzanian influence and military m&mm to Uganda. I.-: AfiQQJA ' .Ounpalgn Continues tANTIn late July, Angola's president Agostinho Neto dissolved , e pjpoartraent fornfor- port has been in the hinterland of the capital, Luanda, in thespnorthern half of the country;: But it was also an affirmation of the success of Paihama and th rest of the provin- ( cial leadership in Cunene ; in establishing mass organizations , cooperatives and literacy programs, under difficult conditions. Southern Angola has suffered recur rent attacks from SouteYn African troops and guer rillas of the opposition movement UNITA. Paihama, a member of the MPLA since 1970, became provincial com missioner after in dependence in 1975, and he was chosen to the cen tral committee of the MPLA in 1977. In ,an earlier reshuffle in December 1978, President Neto stressed that the : government must be more effective in serving the 1 needs of the people, and the example - of mass mobilization in Cunene province was evidently.! one'of the models he had in mind. . , The . July action ap parently not a new shift of direction, but rather a continuation of the; tightening-up of govern-1 ment structures begun in 1978, an effort to eliminate abuses and to make possible a more ef fective response to economic and social needs. The government changes have also been ac-: companied by a continu-' ing "rectification" cam paign within the ruling party, begun after the December 1977 MPLA congress. The focus of that campaign is to ensure that the party represents primiarly Angolas' workers and rural peasants rather than the country's educated minority intellectuals, bureaucrats and small businessmen. One illustra tion was the April dismissal of Benguela Pro vincial Commissioner Garcia Lourennco Con treiras, amid charges that the party organization in" the city had elitist ideas and was trying to keep workers from positions of influence. The repeated changes do seem to have resulted in a higher level of organization, which is beginning to deliver in creased services. But ef forts are still hampered by in the economy, according differentials institute! ,to an MPLA Politic"! durfng-.-th.? year, b"t n Bureau statmerit ia Junr, oac- cjanKh1uiilecoiiomi thereis still "low produc-f recovery had advancec tion and low productivity! much beyohd , initial jin -almost' every sector' suges ;- ;' .w-.- . Price control imposed fnj v. Angolas' political 'leaving . the supply of j ; May provided some relief stability is , also still teachers and school! to the urban consumer, as threatened by attacjej material far behind. And. did reductions fa ; s.alr , fConttaued on Page 7J " severe shortages of trained personrifcl and, managers in all sectors., Iktweeh 1973 and 1979, for example, school enrollment has in-t ireased by a factor of four.i to more than 1 Vi million, ; ft) iM.M ANSBACH, GERMANY LTC Norborne S. Bowles assumed the command of the 141st Signal Battalion, recently in a military ceremony with the review LTC Bowles assumed the command from LTC Harvey J. 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