Forty years ago when Riyaz Hassanali, then 12, boarded a plane with his family at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, he realized he had dropped a transistor radio and a blanket. Desperate to cling to the few possessions he could take, Hassanali ran back. The radio was gone, and the blanket was wrapped around a sleeping African baby. "For some reason, I didn't think it belonged to me anymore," Hassanali recalled recently. Hassanali, a physician in Buffalo, N.Y., is one of about 1,200 Ugandan Asians who found a home in the United States after President Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the Asian community - made up of mostly Indians and Pakistanis - from the country in August 1972. Ashik...
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