CROWDS AT ENTEBBE AIRPORT; TITO AND WIFE GREETED BY OBOTE; OBOTE AND TITO DURING TALKS; TITO LEAVING AT AIRPORT.




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Background: CONTINUING HIS AFRICAN TOUR, PRESIDENT TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA FLEW INTO ENTEBBE ON FRIDAY (FEBRUARY 22) FOR A BRIEF MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MILTON OBOTE OF UGANDA.

PRESIDENT TITO ARRIVED IN ENTEBBE FROM NAIROBI, WHERE HE HAD COMPLETED AN EIGHT-DAY STATE VISIT TO KENYA.

AS THE TWO LEADERS MET, PRESIDENT OBOTE EXPRESSED HIS REGRET AND DISAPPOINTMENT THAT, DUE TO HEALTH REASONS, PRESIDENT TITO HAD BEEN OBLIGED TO CANCEL HIS PLANNED FULL STATE VISIT TO UGANDA.

MAKING THE MOST OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN LEADER'S BRIEF STOPOVER, THE TWO PRESIDENTS DROVE TO STATE HOUSE FOR AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THE NON-ALIGNMENT ISSUE -- PRESIDENT TITO HAS CALLED REPEATEDLY FOR A SUMMIT MEETING OF LEADERS FROM NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES IN AN EFFORT TO SOLVE WORLD PROBLEMS.

AND AMONG THE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY THE TWO PRESIDENTS WERE DISARMAMENT, WORLD TENSION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

THE UGANDAN LEADER LATER ACCOMPANIED PRESIDENT TITO BACK TO THE AIRPORT AS HE FLEW OUT TO START A FOUR-DAY VISIT TO SUDAN.