A guerrilla army won't give in; a dissi-dent dies during "interrogation"; an exiled politician says to prepare for armed rebellion. Scenes from Uganda's nightmare past? No, headlines in the most recent issues of the Monitor, Uganda's only independent daily newspaper and a bold voice, at least until October 10th, when two dozen police officers barged into the newsroom and shut the paper down. The crackdown came as a shock. The relations between the government and the Monitor, its frequent critic, had always been icy. But tolerating it burnished Yow-eri Museveni's credentials as a different kind of African leader―the avatar of a "new African renaissance," as Bill Clinton put it when he visited Uganda in 1998.
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