Amin resumes some duties

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33058, 27 October 1972, Page 13

Amin resumes some duties

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

KAMPALA, October 26.

President Amin, of Uganda, admitted to hospital for a complete rest on Monday, resumed some of his official duties yesterday, signing a decree requiring all non-citizens of Asian origin to leave the country by November 8, unless specifically exempted.

He also signed a second decree setting up a board of custodians of six Cabinet Ministers to administer properties and businesses abandoned by their Asian owners, according to Radio Uganda.

Radio Uganda quoted President Amin as saying that the disease which caused his admittance to hospital had been “strong.” It was believed to have been a throat infection. “FRIENDS IN U.K.”

The broadcast went on to say that after signing the

decrees, the President said that he would not take Uganda out of the Commonwealth. General Amin said he had heard reports that a minority of groups in Britain wanted to see Uganda expelled. But he was happy to see that the majority of British people were friendly towards Uganda and he promised that he would remain friendly with Britain.

He said that the only group of British people who were not wanted in Uganda were those who had come as spies. He mentioned specifically British people living in Fort Portal, in north-western Uganda, who, he said had been corresponding with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

‘POLITICAL GONORRHOEA’ Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that a British doctor and a university professor left Kampala on Tuesday night for Kenya, after being accused by President Amin of feeding Ugandans with “political gonorrhoea.” The two were Professor Richard Trussel, head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Makarere University, Kampala, and Dr David Barkham, the chief Government physician.

The head of the university’s surgery department Professor Sir lan Macadam, also British, is to leave tomorrow and three members of the university’s political science department — two Britons and an Australian — left at the weekend after being detained by ■police last week..