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** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
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** and Israeli
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** and airborne
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