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Idi Amin rep northern Uganda Akron Beacon Journal Air Friday, March 30, 1979 orte From Beacon Journal Wtro Sorvicn NAIROBI, Kenya Ugandan exiles say President Idi Amin has fled to northern Uganda as invading Tanzanian troops close in on Kampala and thousands of panic-stricken residents flee the capital. There was no independent confirmation of Amin's flight, and some sources in Kampala said they believed the bellicose Ugandan strongman remained in the area despite the strongest challenge yet to his eight-year rule. BUT AMIN has not been seen in Entebbe, the site of his statehouse, for three days. United Nations employees evacuated from Kampala to Kenya on Thursday said the invasion force of Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels pounded the capital with artillery that "just kept roaring" through the night. They said intermittent shelling continued after daylight, and thousands of Africans were streaming out of the city on foot toward Jinja, an army garrison town 40 miles to the northeast.

Ugandan exile sources said Amin was losing control of the army. They reported rebellions at two garrisons, one 24 miles north of Kampala and another in Amin's native northwestern Nile district. SOME OF the 50 UN employees evacuated Thursday said they saw soldiers stripping off their uniforms, throwing away guns and joining the fleeing refugees. Amin's air force has been either lost to enemy fire or grounded for lack of spare parts. The only military support he can now count on is from a handful of fellow Kakwa tribesmen and a few thousand Nubian mercenaries recruited from Sudan.

Diplomats here in the Kenyan capital said the invaders were in the suburbs of Kampala Thursday, about 10 miles from the city, and four miles from Entebbe, the for- mer British colonial capital, which is 21 miles south of Kampala. Entebbe, on the western shore of Lake Victoria, is the site of Uganda's only international airport, gateway for the airlift of Libyan aid to the embattled Amin regime. IN DAR ES SALAAM, the Tanzanian capital, a new coalition of exiles called the Uganda National Liberation Front said the invaders would take Kampala "at will" and Entebbe was "at our mercy." "We are giving enough time for innocent civilians and foreigners to leave," said the statement by the exiles who met in Tanzania last week. Diplomatic sources in Dar Es Salaam said the Arab troops sent by the radical Moslem regime in Libya to bolster fellow-Moslem Amin had been seen moving north to an air base at Gulu, in northern Uganda. It was not known if they planned a stand there or were moving to a safe airport for evacuation.

Tanzanian troops and their Ugandan rebel allies began their march on Kampala after driving a Ugandan invasion force out of Tanzania last fall. Foreign correspondents have been barred from the war zone during the five-month-old conflict, prohibiting independent confirmation of either side's battlefield claims. -I Idi Amin fleeing to 1 'I 1' iiSS. fliers Sumn A Division of T.C. Y.

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