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--"•IMMEDIATE •HER CAT A CONFIDENTIAL p: AAMPALA 1315332 JULY CCUFI DE'ITI AL ' TO IMMEBIVTZ FCO TEL HO 299 OF 13 JULY 1976 WJ TO IMMEDIATE UKMIS HEW YORK INFO PARIS BONN TEL AVIV UKMIS GENEVA NAIROBI AND WASHINGTON MtPT* HIJACKING 1. LUBEQA WAS WIDE OF THE HARK IN HIS ASSESSMENT OF THE LIME AM IN MIGHT TAKE IN HIS ADDRESS THIS AFTERNOON. ; 2. AMIH'S SPEECH, BUILD AROUND THE HIJACK IMG'DRAMA FROM THE TIKE OF ARRIVAL OF THE AIRCRAFT AT ENTEBBE UNTIL THE ISRAELI 3AID, QUICKLY LEAD UP TO A DENUNCIATION OF THE UK, BY LEVELLING ALL HAMMER OF ACCUSATIONS (SOME OLD) AGAINST US HE OBVIOUSLY HOPED EFFECTIVELY TO DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE FACTS OF MRS BLOCH'S DISAPPEARANCE. 3. AKIN' ATTACK ON US WAS INTENSIFIED BY HIS FURY AT THE BRITISH MEDIA PARTICULARLY THE BBC AMD LUBEGA'S ASSESSMENT OF HIS # SENSITIVITY ON THIS PO HIT WAS ACCURATE. 4. AMI*! HAS GIVEN HO HINT OF THEHATURE OF THE DECISION HE MIGHT TAKE AFFECTING THE UK FOLLOWING THE SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE BUT HE r.ADE NO THREATS AGAINST THECOMMUNITY HID I CAT ING INSTEAD THAT HE HAD NOTHING AGAINST THEM. HIS LAST SUBSTANTIAL THREAT OF DRASTIC ACT I OH AGAINST US WAS IN DECEMBER 1972. THE UPSHOT ON THAT OCCASION ViAS THE EXPROPRIATION OF MOST LARGE BRITISH FIRMS AND TEA ESTATES. OUR REMAINING ECONOMIC INTERESTS,HOWEVER, ARE HOT LARGE ENOUGH TO MERIT A REPETITION OF THIS EXERCISE, THIS SUGGESTS THAT HE HAY HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN MIND. MY OWN EXPULSION OROTHER ACTION "AGAINST THIS MISSION WOULD ^4OT BEVINCONSISTENT WITH THE TENOR OF HIS ATTACK. 5 HORROCKS DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION [COPIES SENT TO NO.10 DOWNING STREET] EAD CONS D COHS EM UNEE- NENAD PUSD NEWS D OADS IMD EID (E) GIPD CABINET OFFICE CONFIDENTIAL