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16 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., MAY 24, 1980 President Binaisa UNLF To Rule UGANDA The Military Steps In Months of simmering conflict between President Godfrey Binaisa and various factions within the Uganda National Libera tion Front (UNLF) were resolved dramatically last week when the UNLF Military Commission fired Binaisa from his post and declared that it would rule in his stead until elections could be held later this year. Based on telephone reports frorn cor respondents in Kampalu and Dar es Salaam, Africa News was able to compile this summary of the recent events in Uganda and the background to those events. AN The final confron tation . for President Binaisa began during the week of May 5 when the Military Commission of . the UNLF detained for questioning, without police approval, Roland Kakooza, editor of the conservative Ugandan periodical The Economy and James Namakajo, an aide to President Binaisa. The military commission believed that the two men were suppressing evidence of arms shipments to President Binaisa as well as information connecting him to corruption in Kam pala. President Binaisa held that the detentions were il legal and sought to have the two men released. On Saturday morning, May 10, after the military had refused to release . Kakooza and Namakajo, President Binaisa an nounced that Brigadier David Oyite Ojok, Ugan dan army chief of staff, would be relieved of his post and reassigned as am bassador to Algeria. In addition, the president an nounced that Col. Samuel Nanyuma, a southerner unpopular for his support of Idi Amin until 1977, would replace the nor therner Ojok as army chief of staff. . Just hours later, on t Saturday afternoon, the military commission an- i nounced on Uganda radio i that President Binaisa's ! removal of Brig. Ojok was ! illegal and that it would not be accepted. The following day, the military commission chairman, Paulo '. Muwanga, who also serves ; as minister of labor, an nounced that President Binaisa and his Cabinet had been relieved of their posts. Muwanga added that a Presidential Com- , mission would be ap- j pointed to take charge of , the nation in cooperation with the UNLF military command until elections could be held. The commission accus ed President Binaisa of seeking to destroy the , Ugandan army, of setting j tribe against tribe and of failing to give direction to the government and to the economy. President Binaisa re-! mained at State House in Entebbe, guarded by Tan zanian soldiers, but he; issued no more official communiques. While these events were taking place in Kampala, Edward Rugamayo, the chairman of the Natiqnal Consultative Council (NCC), Uganda's interim, legislative body, flew to Arusha, Tanzania, to con sult with President Julius; Nyerere. Nyerere met fori several days with Rugamayo and sought to get him to return to Kam pala to convene a meeting of the NCC to rule on the! actions of the military commission. Nyerere said that Tanzania would sup port whatever position the NCC took on the matter. The military commis sion itself, perhaps: recognizing the impor-! tance of Tanzanian sup port, called for a meeting of the NCC on Monday. However, Rugamayo held that the actions of the military commission dissolved the Consultative Council itself and therefore no such meeting was possible. f Less than one year after the overthrow of Idi . Amin, because no persons , or parties inside or outside Uganda seem prepared.to J present a serious challenge' J to the military commis sion, the Ugandan military appears once more to be in complete control. What remains unclear, however, are the precise balance of power within the commission and the direction which it is likely to set for Uganda in the months ahead. The military commis sion was created at the unity . conference in Moshi, Tanzania, last year which preceded the fall of Idi Amin. Though it ac tually commands no troops, it is composed principally of military commanders. Paulo Muwanga, a veteran politician and supporter of former President Milton Obote, was elected chairman of the bbdy at the Moshi conference. The commission was relatively inactive for J many months but ! escalating differences with President Binaisa led to its reactivation in an attempt to exercise more power over the president. The military commission is composed of persons from many different political factions, in Uganda, but in these early days of its assumption of power ap pears to have a strong, Vl IV.1UUUV1I if uwiv a Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party. On one key issue the commission already came down on Obote's side last week, deciding that all political parties will be I allowed to. contest the! coming elections. The multi-party election had been strongly opposed by President Binaisa and the National Consultative ! Counqil but is strongly favored by UPC elements supporting former Presi dent Obote, as well as by other political parties such as the Democratic Party. Another key figure in j the military commission (which has been expanded to include battalion com manders) is the man at the center of the present con-; troversy, Brigadier Ojok. j Ojok is a career soldier 1 from northern Uganda and a longtime friend and supporter of Dr. Obote. It j h'ad long been rumored that Ojok was the com mander of one of the larger private armies in Uganda and that he had been preparing his troops to march on Kampala. Still unclear are whether, the actions of the military I commission were a spon taneous response to Brigadier Ojok's dismissal or whether the dismissal' simply provided an oppor tunity for the implementa-j tion or a preconceived takeover plan. It is reported that the situation in Kampala is relatively quiet following the takeover by the military commission and security problems appear; somewhat lessened. Public: reaction in the capital seems to be quite mixed .j Some Ugandans are op posed to the move because! of a general feeling against any form of military con trol. Others, particularly' some among the Baeanda people, harbor an extreme dislike for Paulo , Muwanga and are oppos ed to this apparent in crease in his power. Still others viewed President Binaisa as corrupt and welcomed the military takeover. Since its takeover of power, the military has taken several steps to con solidate its authority. First, it has announced that within a few days, it will make public the names of the members of the presidential commis sion that is to govern the country until elections can be held. Second, although David Rugamayo, chair man of the National Con sultive Council, remains in Arusha, the military com mission has announced that the council will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday, May 22, to con sider the actions of the military. Many uncertainties still cloud Uganda's future. Key among these are ques tions about how the military will fare in: building a .harmonious relationship with the presidential commission, obtaining Tanzanian sup port, for, its actions,' Fired From Post; Until Elections Happiness Through Health BY OTTO McCLARRiN On S u m m STERILIZATION METHOD THAT RE QUIRES NO SURGERY BEING TESTED A new method of female i sterilization that requires no surgery, no hospitalization and no general anesthesia is being tested with success at the Lankenau Hospital in the Philadelphia area. The method will soon be tested on women at eight other hospitals. The procedure involves injecting liquid silicone into the Fallopian tubes, which carry the ova from the ovaries to the uterus to be ! fertilized. Several minutes after injection, the silicone hardens into a rubbery con sistency and blocks the movement of an ovum. Currently, a woman, undergoing sterilization j generally has a choice of two methods. Both require a hospital stay of one or two nights, a general or regional anesthetic and surgery that results in the destruction of the tubes. The procedures are the Pomeroy method, in which the mid-section of the Fallopian tube is removed and both ends are tied off, or a laparoscopy, in which the Fallopian tubes are cauterized burned closed.1 In the new procedure, a tube-like instrument is in serted into the uterus and then into the Fallopian tubes, and the silicone is pumped through the device. Traditional methods can cost between $350 and $1200. The cost of the new procedure would be $350 to $500. Dr. Robert A. Erb, a scientist at the Franklin Institute Research Center in Philadelphia, who developed the technique, hopes the ' - : Africa News Continued from Page 13 France and the U.S. main tain large offices to ad minister projects which spend millions of dollars in the financing of primarily agricultural work. China is involved in the tobacco and cotton in dustries, while the Soviet Union has educated several thousand Malians and is busy building two large airstrips at Mopti and Gao. .Mineral development is in its infancy and looks in viting, making Mali ripe for an influx of foreign capital to exploit various reserves. Japan has been prospecting near Gao 1 since 1974 in the hopes of finding a continuation of! the uranium ore now be-1 ing mined in the Air' mountain region of neighboring Niger. Though the quantity and richness of the uranium found is a guarded secret, sources report that there is continuing recruitment for jobs in the uranium mines. Large deposits of phosphate and iron ore are known to exist, and the search continues for other important resources, including oil and gas. Before the mineral wealth of Mali can be tap ped, the transport system to market them must be built. This will require more assistance and several years work. The African Development Fund has started construc tion on a 71 km. (44 miles) long road connecting the Mopti-Segow-Bamako triangle, the economic nerve of the country. The Bamako-Dakar railway will then provide a route of trade with the Atlantic. , A prerequisite for economic growth is a faith in the country's leaders' ability to properly develop and implement projects. For his part, Traore recently announced a three year recovery plan for the bankrupt state owned enterprises, open ing them up for the first time to foreign and private capital. An economic police force has also been established to combat food smuggling. new method will oe free from the systemic side effects of the (birth control) pill and the local side-effects of the IUD (intra-uterine device). Hospitals in Wash ington, Baltimore, Wilming ton, Reading, Pa., Allen town, Pa., Brooklyn and Hartford, Conn., are each expected to test the proce dure on about 100 women each during the next year. The Federal Drug Adminis tration (FDA) requires tests on a minimum of 1,000 women before a drug or procedure can be used widely. BLINDING DISEASE SPREADS WIDELY IN AFRICA A viral disease called Rift Valley Fever that devastates livestock and can cause blindness in human beings has now spread the length' of Africa, and world health j officials are concerned that 1 the disease may invade other areas of the world. Rift Valley Fever is not now known to be in the United States. However, i Col. Gerald A. Eddy, the' chief virologist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute in Frederick, Md., says "The world is relatively unprepared for this poten tially devastating disease." Some experts are concern ed that insufficient steps have been taken to control this disease which charac teristically hits explosively and that could cause Tips A vacation may not be juat what the doctor ordered for your eyea, unleti you're careful. Annoying and sometimes seriously sunburned eyes are just one of the hazards your eyea may face on a vacation. Other typical vacation related problems are black eyes and eye socket frac tures from baseball beanings or rackets, cuts and bruises from excursions into the woods, dry eyes from over exposure to wind and stinging, burning eyes from chlorinated swimming pools. 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