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...Life" in their speeches. Yet Amin kept himself in the spotlight by his verbal tussles with Kenya. His posture as injured party in the Entebbe drama was also weakened by the fate of Dora Bloch, 75, the sole hostage the Israelis left behind in Uganda (she was in a Kampala hospital at the time of the rescue). London asserts that Mrs. Bloch, who held dual Israeli and British citizenship, has been killed. According to reports from Uganda, she suffocated when security police gagged her to stifle screams as they dragged her from the hospital after the airport raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Vindication for the Israelis | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Since the raid, diplomats in Kampala say, the mercurial Ugandan leader has been furiously searching for scapegoats for the Entebbe disaster. One possible victim of Amin's fury may have been the lone hostage the Israeli commandos left behind: Dora Bloch, 74, who at the time of the rescue was in a Kampala hospital being treated after some food had become stuck in her throat. At week's end, ominously, Ugandan authorities were claiming that they knew nothing of her whereabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: After Entebbe: Showdown in New York | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Based on information obtained from the freed hostages and by the Mossad, and largely confirmed by diplomats in Kampala and officials in West European countries, Israel's Herzog argued, among other points, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: After Entebbe: Showdown in New York | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...Amin often moves about under tight guard-usually trusted mercenaries who are themselves watched by a troop of undercover enforcers known as the Public Research Unit. Amin has survived at least eight assassination attempts, including one last month, when grenades were tossed at his car as he left Kampala's police headquarters. His driver was killed and 37 bystanders were injured but Amin was barely scratched, probably confirming his belief that "God is on my side and the most powerful witchcraft cannot hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Idi Amin: The Bully of Kampala | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Amin's public rhetoric pushes bombast to its limits. He has praised Adolf Hitler and plans to erect a memorial to der Führer in Kampala. Constantly lecturing world leaders, Amin has (in 1973) wished Richard Nixon "a speedy recovery from the Watergate affair"; advised President Gerald Ford to choose a black as U.S. Vice President; told Arab states to "train kamikaze pilots [to] beat Israel"; and denounced Julius Nyerere, the President of neighboring Tanzania, as "a whore who spreads gonorrhea all over Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Idi Amin: The Bully of Kampala | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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