10—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, June 22, 1977
Ugandan troops retaliate
after ambush on Amin
NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Ugandan
troops loyal to President Idi Amin have
gone on a "rampage of killings"
following an assassination attempt
against Amin in which the dictator was
wounded, the Kenya news agency said
yesterday.
The agency said Amin was wounded
during an ambush attack against his car•
last weekend and quoted sources close to
Amin as saying he had been hospitalized
in Uganda, thus explaining his
mysterious disappearance.
It said hundreds of Ugandans were
fleeing to Kenya to escape "certain
death" at the hands of Amin's troops.
In Luxembourg, British Foreign
Secretary David Owen said Amin "is
alive and well" but would not elaborate
or give the source of his information.
Uganda Radio mentioned Amin for the
first time in three days last night, saying
he had received last Saturday the
Uganda delegation to an OAU meeting
and thanked them for its work. It did not
explain why a report of a Saturday
meeting was delayed until last night.
A statement issued at a Common
Toughens health, safety rules
U.S. Senate okays mi
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
voted yesterday to toughen federal
health and safety laws for coal and hard
rock mines in a move proponents con
sidered critical because of President
Carter's plan to double coal production.
Final passage of the legislation came
on a 78-18 roll call vote after the Senate
rejected several Republican-sponsored
weakening amendments.
The legislation, which has yet to pass
the House, would also transfer en
forcement of federal mine safety laws
from the Interior Department to the
Quinlan's condition worse
NEW YORK ( AP) Karen Anne
Quinlan, who has lingered in a coma
ever since her parents, won the right to
turn off the machinery they thought was
keeping her alive, i's in deteriorating
health and is near death, The New York
Daily News reported.
"All I can say is she's having a pretty
rocky time at this point," said the ad
ministrator of the Morris Plains, N.J.,
nursing home, Fred Swanson, as quoted
today by the New York paper.
He declined to specify what caused the
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Market meeting in Luxembourg said
any European aid to Africa must not
prolong the "denial of human rights in
Uganda." Asked after the meeting if the
statement was made on the assumption
Amin was still alive, Owen replied,
"Amin is alive and well."
The Kenyan news agency report said
hundreds of Ugandans, including senior
civil servants and army officers, had
fled to Kenya to escape "a rampage of
killings of innocent people suspected of
having taken part in the assassination
bid."
"Hundreds of Ugandans, including
military and civilian personnel have
defected to Kenya, running away from
certain death during the current purge
in Uganda following the assassination
attempt on President Idi Amin late last
week," the government agency said.
The agency quoted diplomatic sources
in Kampala as saying there "certainly is
a massacre taking place here."
Thousands of Christians and Acholi
and Langi tribesmen were reported
murdered earlier in the year after Amin
allegedly uncovered another plot to
Labor Department July 1, 1978, and
bring hard rock mines under stronger
standards for coal mines.
The administration and organized
labOr strongly supported the bill, which
would affect an estimated 212,000 coal
miners and 274,500 hard rock miners.
A substitute amendment by Sen. Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah, which would have voided
the transfer, kept the coal and hard rock
standards separate, and allowed state
enforcement of the laws, was rejected by
a 66-30 vote.
Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., floor
reported ' deterioration. But the
newspaper said there was speculation
that a serious infection developed.
Quinlan collapsed April 15, 1975, and
suffered brain damage after ingesting a
combination of alcohol and barbiturates.
She was kept alive for six months by a
mechanical respirator before her
parents, convinced that their daughter
had no hope of recovering, asked a
superior court judge to let Karen die
"with dignity and grace."
topple him.
Amin implicated the Anglican arch
bishop of Uganda, Janani Luwum, and
two of his cabinet ministers in that
alleged plot.. The three were later
killed in what Amin called a traffic
accident.
Radio Uganda last night made its first
direct reference to Amin in several days.
The radio said Amin last Saturday had
received the Uganda delegation to the
Organization of African Unity liberation
committee meeting in Angola and
thanked the group for its work.
The radio did not explain why it•
reported the Saturday meeting only
yesterday.
In Kampala, the Uganda cabinet held
a regular session but made no mention of
Amin's whereabouts.
The Kenya agency said there was a
"mass movement of troops within
Uganda," particularly the capital of
Kampala. Roadblocks remained in place
in the capital and armored personnel
carriers were on station at Entebbe
airport.
ne laws
manager for the bill, said it was vital
because Carter's energy plan relies
heavily on increased mineral produc
tion.
Williams said an effective mine safety
and health program must be a foun
dation as the nation builds a national
energy program.
"Otherwise, we will continue to pay
for our energy and minerals with the
dreadful currency of human lives and
limbs," Williams said.
Throughout the floor debate, Williams
alluded to the Scotia coal mine disaster
in eastern Kentucky last year which
killed 23 miners and three federal mine
inspectors, and also the Tower City, Pa.,
mine accident in February, which killed
9 men.
Several of the tougher standards were
a direct result of the Scotia disaster,
where two methane gas explosions
rocked the mine. It had been cited
numerous times by the Mining Enfor
cement and Safety Administration,
(MESA) for law violations, but was
allowed to remain operating.
One new provision would allow MESA
to close a mine that has 'a "pattern of
violations" of a substantial nature.
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