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A Strongman's Test
SINCE HIS REBEL army seized power in Uganda 19 years ago, Yoweri Museveni has emerged as one of Africa's heroes. Intelligent, witty and supremely confident in his abilities, he has led a government that cut poverty by 40 percent in the 1990s, achieving East Asian-style progress, even though his small and landlocked nation borders unstable Sudan, Congo and Rwanda and faces a murderous insurgency in its north. But now Mr. Museveni is risking his legacy. He is pushing for a constitutional change that would allow him to run for another five-year term as president.

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