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Entebbe

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En·teb·be  (n-tb, -tb)
A town of southern Uganda on Lake Victoria. Formerly (1894-1962) the capital of Uganda, it is the site of an international airport, where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers. Population: 55,000.
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Noun1.Entebbe - a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers)
Republic of Uganda, Uganda - a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962


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Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana Harlem Moon/Broadway Books September 2006 $9.
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Fullwood, Steven G. / Black Issues Book Review
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.
Stuck in the Middle East with you: lessons from an improbable ... by Hammer, Joshua / Washington Monthly
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.
THIS ONE'S OUT FOR BLOOD by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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