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NOTES: COL PRINT LOCATION: KHARTOUM, SUDAN TITLE: KHARTOUM AMIN SERVICED DATE: 07/21/78 NO: LNC 95002 DATE SHOT: 07/22/78 LENGTH: 30FT SECONDS: 0:48 SOUND: ENGSOF DATE OF ARRIVAL: FILM SHOWS: PRESIDENT AMIN OF UGANDA SPEAKING AT THE OAU SUMMIT ABOUT AFRICAN UNITY AND REMOVING COLONIALISM FROM THE CONTINENT LEAD IN: THE FINAL DAY OF THE FOUR-DAY SUMMIT MEETING OF THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY IN KHARTOUM WAS ENLIVENED ON FRIDAY (JULY 21) BY AN ADDRESS BY THE FLAMBOYANT PRESIDENT IDI AMIN OF UGANDA. BUT THE AIR WAS NOT ALWAYS LIGHT-HEARTED. HE TOOK THE OCCASION TO ACCUSE THE "ZIONISTS" OF INFILTRATING THE CONGRESS AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND CONTROLLING THE 250 MILLION PEOPLE OF THE USA. PRESIDENT AMIN, WHO ONCE SPORTED ON HIS UNIFORM THE WINGS OF ISRAEL'S PARATROOPERS, HAS LONG SINCE FALLEN OUT WITH ISRAEL, AND RELATIONS REACHED A NEW LOW WITH THE ISRAELI COMMANDO RAID ON ENTEBBE AIRPORT IN 1976. IN HIS SPEECH, PRESIDENT AMIN ALSO REPEATED HIS BOAST OF HAVING DRIVEN THE "BRITISH IMPERIALISTS" OUT OF UGANDA. HERE'S AN EXTRACT. FEET R/SECS MCU AMIN SPEAKS 12 19 MS KAUNDA LISTENS 30 48 MCU AMIN SPEAKS COMMENTARY: AMIN: "I HAVE LIBERATED MY COUNTRY ECONOMICALLY, AND I AM ECONOMICALLY STRONG, AND THAT IS WHY I SAY I UPROOTED THE BRITISH IMPERIALISM FROM UGANDA, AND UGANDA IS NOW PURE AFRICAN". NATSOF APPLAUSE AMIN: "ACCORDING TO THE AFRICAN TRADITION, WHEN WE SPEAK VERY STRONGLY, VERY FRANKLY AND IN A VERY HOT DEBATE, LIKE THE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT HAVE BEEN MAKING HERE, WHERE THEY EXCHANGE HOT WORDS ... THIS IS VERY GOOD FOR AFRICA; IT WILL UNITE US, WE WILL BECOME VERY STRONG". APPLAUSE