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Entebbe

City in Uganda, on the northwest shore of Lake Victoria, 20 km/12 mi southwest of Kampala, the capital; 1,136 m/3,728 ft above sea level; population (2002 est) 57,500. Founded in 1893, it was the administrative centre of Uganda 1894–1962. The international airport of Uganda is here. Industries include tourism and fishing.

In 1976 a French aircraft was hijacked by a Palestinian liberation group. It was flown to Entebbe airport, where the hostages on board were rescued six days later by Israeli troops.



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Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana Harlem Moon/Broadway Books September 2006 $9.
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He found his way to Zionism at an early age; while his high school and college classmates were rallying around cult figures like Leonard Peltier, the Native-American activist serving a life sentence for murder, Goldberg focused his idolization on Yonatan Netanyahu, the Israeli special-forces commander and older brother of the former prime minister, who died leading the raid to free hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976.
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The monstrously charismatic power figure is Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada, and the film is set in the early 1970s, from the time he seized power in the African nation to the bizarre hostage crisis at Entebbe Airport.
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