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...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...
...Dynamite. Until very late in the week before the raid, the Israelis hoped to negotiate the release of the hostages, 93 Israelis and passengers with Jewish-sounding names and twelve Air France crew members. The skyjackers threatened to kill all of them unless Israel freed 40 terrorists from its prisons and West Germany, France, Switzerland and Kenya released an additional...
...rescue mounted in the Israeli Cabinet. Finally Premier Yitzhak Rabin acquiesced-but only after the men from Mossad had assured him that the skyjackers had not planted dynamite around the Airbus and the terminal's lounge, where the hostages were being held. Rabin warned, however, that if the raid failed, "it might cause the collapse of this Cabinet...
What was self-styled Field Marshal Amin doing during the raid? As the C130s approached Entebbe, an old acquaintance of his, Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda, phoned him from Tel Aviv. By the time Amin and Bar-Lev hung up 20 minutes later, the Israelis' 50-minute raid was well under...
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...