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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes monday june 27, 1977 wounded participant claims Amin ambush detailed London up a Man who claimed to have been part of an assassination squad that ambushed president Idi Amin s car More than a week ago told the observer newspaper that the ugandan dictator was wounded in the attack and had to be carried away by bodyguards. The Man who told the newspaper he wanted to keep his identity secret to protect relatives living in Uganda made his claim shortly before the mercurial Amin appeared on Uganda television saturday night denying reports that there had been an assassination attempt. The observer s informant said the ambush occurred on june 18 at 10 . Near Entebbe on the Road to Kampala. The Man said Amin s car was hit first with Bazooka Shell which killed the Driver and a bodyguard in the front seat and caused the car to leave the Road. Amin armed with a pistol returned the fire and then fled the car the observer said. But As the dictator jumped from the automobile he was hit by machine gun fire. The informant said he saw Amin fall to the ground bleeding. Then troops escorting Amin opened fir and the ambush squad fled the observer said. The informant said he saw body guards carrying Amin away. The informant now in Nairobi told the observer he had Learned thai Amin was treated either at a House on the Shore of Lake Victoria or was flown to Libya. He reported that a Large number of air Force and army personnel from Southern Bantu tribes participated in the assassination attempt. An unidentified dealer at a Munich Art auction holds a water color painting by nazi dictator Adolf Hitler which later collector s item fetched $5,625, nearly twice the listed Sale Price. The painting Street scene in a Northern French City dates Back to 1915-16 when Hitler fought on the French front with the invading army of Kaiser Wilhelm ii. A photo canadians observe forces Day Ottawa up guardsmen in red tunics and Black Bearskin hats marching to the old tunes of glory marked Canada s National armed forces Day saturday with a traditional changing the guard ceremony on parliament Hill. No displays of military might. No tanks and missiles on show. No Jet fighters screaming overhead in Salute. Just 200 Young guardsmen some of them University students performing an ancient Cere  guards reservists from Ontario and Quebec and University students enrolled or summer employment form the Gover nor general s foot guards and the Canad an Grenadier guards of Montreal. Throughout the summer they stand daily guard outside government House on Sussex drive. Other than the guard commanders the Only professionals on Parade were the 60 Green uniformed members of the Central band of the Canadian armed forces. They led the Parade up Wellington Street toward parliament Hill to the tune of the  professionalism shows but there was no Lack of professional ism. Backs ramrod straight the guards marched and counter marched across the lawns in front of the houses of parliament to the obvious Delight of a crowd of about 4,-000 spectators. Young and not so Young watched with Awe As bayonets flashed officers roared commands and shiny Black boots stampeding response. The regimental color was trooped by an officer along the ranks of guardsmen re calling the ancient ceremony when sol Diers were shown the Flag so they could recognize a rallying Point amid the confusion of Battle. After passing the reviewing stand in slow and Quick time the Parade marched off to strains of colonel bogey and the applause of the crowd. Changing the guard has been a crowd Puller in Ottawa since it was first per formed in 1959 by the Canadian guards. It is held daily throughout the summer unti labor Day. Spain communists sharply reject soviet attack Madrid i api the Spanish communist party Apcel sunday declared an attack by the weekly soviet publication new times against the Secretary general of the party Santiago Carrillo is an attack against the pc As a  the party announcement said that the attack was against the principles of Polit ical action by All communist parties striving for a democratic Way toward socialism and for socialism in  the Central committee of the pc on saturday started a two Day closed door session to Deal with the party s strategy after the recent parliamentary elections i Spain. The note issued at the end of sunday s session said that now is the moment to banish among communist and workers parties the practice of supplanting scientific analysis of problems with anathema  the note added that their soviet methods Are one of the causes for real socialism existing in some countries be cause the soviet Union cannot be 3 pole students stage protest Warsaw up three students have started a hunger strike at Gdansk on the Baltic coast to protest the imprisonment of human rights campaigners the outlawed workers defense committee said. Presented As an Ideal  the new times Early last week attacked Carrillo s views on eur communism Call ing them a potential menace to world  this was one of the Strong est attacks on a foreign communist Leader by the soviet Union in recent years. The session of the pc which was to end later sunday and a communique on mat ters dealt in the two Day session scheduled for monday release were being supervised by Dolores Iba Ruri la Pas Onaria figurehead president of the pc and car Rillo. Carrillo. 62. Who spent his years in Politi Cal exile in Paris was denounced by the soviet publication for his latest Book eur a communism and the state. New times said Carrillo s View if applied in practice would Lead to a split in the International communist  note added the pc is not under the discipline of any group or party regionally or  the pc the note continued will continue to elaborate its out political line and its strategy with Complete  the 82-year-old Barrari despite her Long residence in exile in the soviet Union from which she returned just before the elections has Given her full support to the Maverick views of Carrillo. The pc won nearly 10 per cent of the popular vote and 2 stats in the new Parlia ment 20 in the Congress of the Lowe chamber and eight in the Senate. The note also said that for Spain and for other capitalist countries the so called eur communism Way offers the Only valid alternative of moving toward socialism an authentic and revolutionary alternative which without renouncing tie Best traditions of the communism movement sub scribes to socialist ideals with deep and irrevocable popular aspirations for  the Central committee of the pc will hear Carrillo s report on party strategy of the pc when the new parliament take office in july. Lady Baden Powe Dies led girl guides London a Olave. Lady Baden Powell world chief guide and widow of Robert Baden Powell founder of the boy scout and girl guide movements died sunday in a Surrey nursing Home. She Wasis. A spokesman for the girl guides association announcing dial she died in her sleep at the Bramley nursing Home said her death will be mourned by 20,000.000 scout Sand guides in More than 100 countries. The spokesman praised the great qualities of leadership judgment and Energy she brought the movement. Olave St. Clair was born in Derbyshire the daughter of Harold and Katherine Soames. In 1912 she married the then u. Gen. Sir Robert Baden Powell who had founded the boy scout and girl guide movements in 1907 and 1910.although 32 years younger than her Hus band who later became lord Baden Powell she shared his birthday feb. 22, which is now known to scouts As founder Day and to guides As thinking Day when they remember friends overseas. After a private cremation service Baden Powell s ashes will be flown to Kenya to be buried in her husband s grave at Nyeri. Details of a thanksgiving service and memorial fund Are to be announce later  
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