Amin fight off?
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo, wrestler, Antonio Inoki, is absolutely false and a comThe Ugandan ambassador! plete fabrication, and tends to Japan, Samusoni Bi- to demean the highest office gombe, said in Tokyo yester- of the president of a friendday reports that President ly state," said Mr Bigombe. Idi Amin was to fight a The Japanese promoter, leading Japanese wrestler Yoshio Ko, said last week were groundless. that President Amin had “The story . . . that Presi- agreed to fight Inoki in a dent Idi Amin, of Uganda, martial arts bout in Kamwas to engage in a fighting pala, on June 10, with Mucontest with the Japanese hammad Ali as the referee. ■
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Press, 3 February 1979, Page 56
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