The World - News from Dec. 4, 1985
Uganda’s military government freed from prison the head of former dictator Idi Amin’s murderous secret police after he agreed to leave the country. Bob Astles, 64, who had been in prison six years, said, “I have no regrets for anything.” He said he hopes to return to his native Britain. The secret police were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ugandans in Amin’s eight-year reign of terror.
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