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During his rule of Uganda, the dictator Idi Amin wrecked the nation's economy, drove out tens of thousands of her citizens, and murdered hundreds of thousands more.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* During his rule of Uganda, the dictator Idi Amin wrecked the nation's economy, drove out tens of thousands of her citizens, and murdered hundreds of thousands more. Yet state documents recently released to Britain's National Archives show that the portly tyrant (who died a year and a half ago in Saudi Arabia) had a helpful side. In 1973, during one of the U.K.'s recurrent pre-Thatcher financial crises, he offered to rescue the British economy. He actually created a Save Britain Fund, encouraging ordinary Ugandans to make contributions. In one excited cable he told Her Majesty's ...

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