Idi Amin 'tried to hitch’
iNZPA-Reuter London | President Idi Amin of Uganda, failed to defy British displeasure and go to 1 London for the Commonwealth summit confer--1 ence because a fellow I African President refused to (let him hitch a lift, the Lon[don “Daily Mirror” reporiec {yesterday. - The Ugandan leader had [had to call off his trip when I President Mobutu of Zaire (refused to take him part ol : the way, the BHtish news (paper said. it quoted a spokesman for President Mobutu as saying (that President Amin hac I flown to the Zairean capital (Kinshasa on Tuesday after (hearing that President Mo(butu was flying to Paris fo; (talks with the French Gov(eminent. i President Mobutu was no:
■going on to London for the eight-day summit which opened on Wednesday be cause Zaire, unlike Uganda is not a member of the 36nation Commonwealth. But Genera! Amin hac pleaded with President Mobutu to take him as far a, Paris. From there the Ugandan leader planned to go b> car to an English Channel port and hire a boat to take him to England for the conference, the “Daily Mirror” quoted the spokesman asaying.
The spokesman added: “But after consulting the French Government President Mobutu gave Idi Amin the brush-off.” This account of events differs sharply from that
• broadcast by the Govern(men t-controlled Radio I Uganda. i Uganda Radio has (identified an arrested Briton ; as a Mr Cullen, former manager of Cooper Motors and later of the Uganda Transport Corporation.
; It said he was being held iin a remote area and would be tried by military tribunal lon treason charges. If found guilty, he would be shot.
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