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Throughout the debate, African diplomats privately admitted their discomfort about proposing a resolution that implicitly endorsed Idi Amin's behavior during the skyjacking episode. Almost all of them carefully avoided mentioning the embarrassing Ugandan "President for 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...
...first 24 hours at Entebbe, the Ugandans guarded the hostages. When the skyjackers returned refreshed, the Ugandan soldiers supplied them with submachine guns...
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...
...very painful." The Israelis felt they would have little difficulty in indicting Amin as a partner in the skyjacking-if not in the planning, then certainly in the developments after the Airbus landed at Entebbe. This, says Jerusalem, is what gave Israel the right to intrude on Ugandan territory to save the hostages...
...statesmen reflects a widespread conviction that Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada is the most grotesque national leader in power anywhere today. His credentials as bully and buffoon go back well before Entebbe. The nonstop reign of terror that the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 280 Ibs.) former Ugandan heavyweight boxing champion and army sergeant major has unleashed since he seized power more than five years ago is thought to have cost the lives of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 Ugandans. Survivors of Amin's jails tell horror stories of prisoners sledgehammered...