The Jerusalem Post · General

The dictator in the terminal: Idi Amin and the Entebbe hostage crisis, 50 years on

· By ALEX WINSTON
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Just after lunchtime on June 27, 1976, the first report reached the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem: an Air France plane had been hijacked.

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