current president, fearing that violence could affect the vote, with the leading opposition candidates predicting that ballots will be rigged.

"Such a day is highly undermined by the lack of free and fair elections," opposition candidate Kizza Besigye said, as he cast his vote in Rukungiri village in western Uganda. Besigye has run unsuccessfully in three previous elections.

Museveni, 71, came to power in 1986 after waging a five-year guerrilla war, yet many Ugandans now credit him with providing peace and economic stability. Yet many of Uganda's younger voters blame Museveni for not tackling endemic corruption or creating enough jobs, and want change. "We are so far behind. We need to open our eyes and move into the 'now' tense," Joel Nyonyintono, a 26-year-old entrepreneur said as he sat nearthe evening of September 16 by two men whom he identified in court as John Hanson and Robert Frazier.  The latter held a pistol while Hanson collected the cash.  Hanson, Frazier and Frazier's brother, Harley, were prosecution witnesses.  Hanson and Frazier admitted to the robbery, and all three testified to substantially the following: They had met on the sixteenth at appellant Heald's house in Belfast, Maine.  In company of Heald and his woman companion, they drove around in a car drinking.  Robert Frazier and Heald discussed robbery, and Heald said he knew of a small place to rob, directing them to the Nite-Owl, which they drove by.  Heald handed Robert Frazier a gun.  They parked near but out of sight of