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10 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, October 13, 1965 | Bizarre And Spectacular | Abound Through Uganda Politicians in Uganda dis- like being on the losing side so much that there is a dan- ger all serious opposition to the ruling People's Congress will disappear. A Canadian Press reporter' who toured Africa des s political and omic' conditions in the country. By JOSEPH MacSWEEN "KAMPALA (CP) -- Off-beat things abound in Uganda. You find snow virtually at the equator, crowning the peaks of the fabled Mountains of the 'oon, : With luck, you can shoot pic- tures of big game from the top level of an English two-decker bus. The lush. soil produces plenty of food for everyone but the main health problem is malnu- trition, And although Uganda has a Socialist prime minister and four kings, one of whom is also president, it seems to be edging toward a one-party system. An attractive land that meas- ures one-quarter the size of Brit- ish Columbia, one-fifth underlfly, the sleeping sickness|mainly because water and swamp, Uganda is no|breeder, malaria and polio, But|W! stranger to divisions, tribal jeal- *ousies and local strife, But it * has been a comparative oasis of|lack of food but because of un-| B serenity among troubled neigh- bors since attaining independ- ence in October, 1962. It escaped the agonjes that/and skills to diversify the econ-| preceded independence in Kenya because the white popu- lation, now _ totalling never comprised a settler group. There has never been a colorjucts subject to sudden drops in|cally: | | bar, although some persons of British stock now complain of "racial verse"--that whites dirty end of the stick. SET UP PROTECTORATE Uganda, admirers say, has always been different. Explor- ers found highly-organized king- doms in contrast with the war- ring tribes of Kenya. The Brit- ish established here in the 1890s a protectorate, as opposed to get the colony in Kenya, and thisjriculture and co-operatives, ex-| presume") who first saw the possibilities for preaching the CWfristian gospel in Uganda. He wrote a letter to the Lon- don Daily Telegraph urging that missionaries be sent, The first Anglican missionaries arrived in 1877 and Roman Catholic White Fathers, whose numbers now include Canadians, reached ihe area two years later, SELL BRIDES . Yet pre - Christian practices persist and {this day you can of the impala'--for 700 shillings or 80. You can't be really hungry even in impoverished areas of a land where ant hills grow to eight feet tall and the rich, red earth throws up a vegetation that enables even lazy duffers to pick their living from the trees. Since Uganda forms a plateau 3,000 of more feet above sea level, it escapes the full blast of equatorial heat and most of the country is deep green prac- tically all year round. Medical authorities are tack- \ling the ravages of the tsetse | ithe main problem, they say, is malnutrition, not because |balanced diet |chronic fatigue. Canada is helping with aid resulting in jomy of Uganda, the biggest cof- fee producer in the Common- 20,000,/wealth, and also a major pro-end of |ducer of cotton and other prod- jworld prices. An economic disadvantage is discrimination in re-;\Uganda's landlocked position at|being on the losing side." the/the heart of Africa, with a rail} {haul of more than 800 miles |from Kampala to the nearest seaport, Mombasa, Kenya. |RESIST CHANGE Perhaps the country's great- est drawback, however, is its dependence on subsistence ifarming. M. M. Ngobi, minister of ag- buy a bride in Kampala--"place} of\with Kenya and Tanzania, policies that encourage Western industrial development while maintaining a stance of non- alignment between East and |West. Leftist influence may be growing, say some observers, and that may be why Obote this year travelled to Moscow and Peking. | Adoko Nekyon, minister of planning and community de- velopment, blamed the United States for Chinese influence in East Africa. | If all the others kept out] leome," he said, "But if; like Canada, China won't America comes in, directs the cold war, tries to direct Uganda, tries to direct Kenya, tries to di- rect Tanzania, tries to direct everybody, then why should the Chinese not come?" RUSSIA HELPS Uganda has no Chinese tech- nicians, said Nekyon, but he ad- ded that there are six Soviet economists in the planning de- partment, There are reports of dissatis- faction with Obote's leadership, of flirtations th the Communist world and failure to achieve a federation ut the record of the Uganda People's Congress since inde- pendence has been tough on the jopposition. More than 20 opposition mem- jbers have crossed the floor of ithe national assembly since the 1962, causing one news- |paper editor to comment {ronl- "It's a phenomenon of poll- itics here that people don't like Even the leader of the oppo- lsition became a government |minister, and Obote now has a lrousing majority in the 90-mem- jber assembly. Some observers say it will be only a matter of time before Uganda goes the way of its }East African' sister nations, {Tanzania and Kenya, and be- comes a one - party state. | TORONTO (CP) -- Mem- bers of the iniernaiionai Ty- pographical Union (CLC) picketed. Felicity Coch- rane's Progressive Conserva- tive campaign headquarters Tuesday. Mrs, Cochrane, nominee' in Toronto Parkdale, then pick- eted the ITU's pickets. The union's pickets carried signs reading: "Mrs. candi- date, the Ontario government is union - busting. What are your views?" trative districts," all of which add up to a complicated three- tier system that makes Can- ada's constitutional structure look as simple as A-B-C. ITU PICKETS A CANDIDATE SO SHE PICKETS ITU BACK Mrs. Cochrane's sign, which sne paraded with the jaraded witt union pickets, read: 'I take my orders from Ottawa, not from Colorado Springs." Mrs, Cochrane's sign re- ferred to ITU headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo, A worker at Mrs, Coch- rane's headquarters said she was picketed because some of her campaign literature is be- ing printed by a friend in a non-union shop, : Local 91 of the ITU has been on strike at Toronto's three dailies since July 9, 1964, But The Telegram, The Star, and The Globe and' Mail have continued to publish, coil Windfall St Rises A Little TORONTO (CP)--The report of the reval cammission on Windfall Oils and Mines Ltd. brought a small spark of life to shares of the company Thursday. j Windfall traded 8,643 shares while Toronto's. financial dis- trict pored over the report. It rose at one time. to 28 cents, but closed the day unchanged at 25 cents, There has been little trading in the shares since last sum- mer, when they rose to $5.60 from 56 cents on rumors of a copper find near Timmins. MANY WEAR CROWNS wearing a crown. for the wed-\day by many Scandinavian The 15th century custom of|ding ceremony is carried on to-| brides. "4 They fell back overnight to 80 cents when the rumors finally were squelched, SAVE 15¢ Buy this special combination pack 100-tablet package of Aspirin $ .99 8-tablet Children's Size Aspirin _.18 Total value $1.14 Get both for 99¢ and save 15+ Aspirin Is the registered trade mark of The Bayer Company, Limited, Aurora, Ontario And Obote, while declaring he} seen as a reason--psychological|plained in an interview how ' >gisl i | or otherwise--for better rela-|the government extends aid 9 eet agg DC _-- agen tions today. Maemave includl jparties, aqm s e wou n | , including tractors and|s-eoret" unwed : \"regret" their death from "nat As long as 10 years ago a\their mechanization, through CO-|y»9) causes," United Nations study found that/ops in an effort to change the) The party named after His the literacy rate here was 40 to/old-age pattern. Highness of Kabaka (king) Mu- 45 per cent higher than any) But there is firm resistance to|tesa II of Buganda, hereditary country south of the Sahara ex-|change from the old system ofjruler of the largest kingdom in cept South Africa. Ignorance, poverty and dis- ease, three ancient enemies, re- main, but the 7,000,000 Ugandans in 13 main tribes have been making steady if deliberate, progress in the fight against them. Education officials are quick to acknowledge their debt to mission schools, It was ex- lland tenure by which Africans|Uganda and president of the work only two or three acres and offen doze under the ma- toke (banana) tree. "We've increased the per- capita income to £28 from £23 since independence," said Ngobi. "We have 6,000 students in secondary schools now com- pared with fewer than 1,000 be- fore independence." plorer H. M. 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