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THE EXCLUSION OF PRESIDENT AMIN Our instructions are: (1) to draw up a plan to ensure Amin's exclusion; (2) to cover action to be taken if Amin lands without • prior authority; (3) to ensure that no hotel in London accepts bookings for Amin. Powers to refuse entry 2. We are advised that the Home Secretary has the legal right and power to refr.se Amin permission to enter the United Kingdom. It is proposed that the exercise of.the power would take the fora of a personal decision by the Home Secretary to refuse permission on the ground that that refusal is conducive to the public good. There is no appeal against such a decision. It is desirable for this decision to be embodied in a document signed by the Home Secretary. 3. The Prime Minister has informed President Amin that, while a visit from him would not be appropriate, and his entry would not be permitted, a Ugandan delegation led by a special represen- tative other than Amin would be accepted. None the less, there would be considerable practical difficulties about sorting cut a delegation arriving with Amin, permitting some to enter but refusing Amin (and perhaps others) . Ministers are therefore as!-:;d to agree that, if An.in arrives with a delegation, the whole delegation should be excluded, unless the Ugandan Government have given notice before hand to the .Commonwealth Secretary General of the composition of a delegation excluding Amin or unless, while the party is here, an acceptable delegation without Amin is named. In either of those cases the proposal would be to permit the entry of persons named as members of the delegation and exclude Amin ar.d