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FH KAMPALA 1115S0Z JUNE
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FLASH FCO TEL NO 183 OF 11 JUNE
1 . SHORTLY BEFOR £ 7 PM 10 JUNE AS PRESIDENT AM ill WAS LEAVING*
THE POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE AT NSAMBYA, KAMPALA, AFTER ATTENDING
A POLICE PASSING OUT PARADE, THREE HAND GREMADES WERE
HURLED TOWARDS HIS CAR* AM IN WAS
BELIEVED NOT TO
HAVE BEEft INJURED B U T H I S DRIVES WAS KILLED.
THE A££A WAS IMMEDIATELY CORDONED OFF BY TROOPS BUT THERE WERE
NO FURTHER INCIDENTS AND ALL OTHER DISTRICTS OF KAMAPLA REMAINED
CALM,
2,THE
5 P M RADIO NEWS TODAY INCLUDED A LENGTHY STATEMENT BY A
MILITARY SPOK.EMAN CONFIRMING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AHO ADDING
ffft&T 39 PEOPLE HAD BEEN INJURED 4 OF THEM SERIOUSLY (ONE OF VHOM
SINCE DIED) THE STATEMENT ALLEGED THAT THE GRENADES V£RE OF
ISRAELI AND AMERICAN ORIGIN, BLAMED THE ATTACK ON ENEMIES OF
PRESIDENT AMIN AND UGANDA, AND SAID THAT THE PERPETRATORS VIE RE NOVI
IN CUSTODY UNDERGOING
I H T E H Q G A T I O N .
3 . THE SITUATION IN KAMPALA HAS SEEvEB NORMAL TODAY WITH NO
OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TENSION. THE FOREIGN MINISTER (VITH OTHE UGANDAN
OFFICIALS)'ATTENDED MY GEP CELEBRATION AT 1 0.AHD WENT AFTERWARDS
TO THE NILE HOTEL TO WITNESS THE PRESENTATION OF THE AUSTRIAN
AMBASSADOR'S CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT AMlN
HORROCKS
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