THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Britain Is Urged to Take Uganda
BeforeWorld Court in Bloch Case
LONDON
(JTA)—The
British government is being
urged to take Uganda to the
International Court of Jus-
tice over the case of Mrs.
Dora Bloch, the murdered
Entebbe hijack hostage.
Labor MP Greville Jan-
ner will make the request
to Foreign Secretary David
Owen in the light of a state-
ment by Uganda's former
health minister that Mrs.
Bloch, a 73-year-old grand-
mother with British and Is-
raeli nationality, was killed
by President Idi Amin's se-
cret police on the day after
- 1.'Thsraeli rescue raid at
I. abbe last July 4 Janner,
who has been acting in Lon-
don on behalf of Mrs.
Bloch's two sons in Israel,
said that "By a quirk of
fate" Unganda recognized
the jurisdiction of the Inter-
national Court of Justice
when it was a British colo-
ny and did not alter its posi-
tion on becoming independ-
ent.
The new claim that Mrs.
Bloch was murdered by
Amin's State Research Bu-
reau was made by Henry
Kyemba, Uganda's former
health minister, who fled se
cretly to Britain following
last month's World Health
Organization conference in
Geneva. The • State Re-
search Bureau is answer-
able only to the president.
It does not act on its own in-
itiative, Kyemba explained.
Interviewed in the Sun-
day Times, Kyemba said
that h6 visited Mrs. Bloch
in Mulago Hospital in Kam-
pala, on July 3.
r
That was on the day be-
fore the Israeli raid on En-
tebbe. Next morning,
Kyemba returned to the hos-
pital and considered the
problem of Mrs. Bloch.
"I knew she was still
there and I knew that with
the Israeli raid having hap-
pened her person was in
considerable danger. I
didn't know what to do with
her.
Kyemba confirmed that
at 6 p.m. that evening Pe-
ter Chandley, Commercial
Attache at the British High
Commission, visited her.
He agreed to get her some
food, but when he returned
he was refused entry at the
gate and eventually - went
home.
Describing Mrs. Bloch's
last hours as "terrible."
Kyemba said "Some time
between 8:30 and 9 p.m.
two agents from the State
Research Bureau" went to
the hostage's room. Warn-
ing the guard outside Mrs.
Bloch's room not to inter-
the two agents burst
ough the double doors
and unceremoniously drag-
ged the old lady out of her
bed. She screamed in terror
and began to struggle. As
she was pulled into the cor-
ridor, her terrible shrieks
brought staff running and
other patients to their
doors.
"No one lifted a finger to
help her. Anyone who inter-
fered would have been
killed. Still screaming and
struggling, Mrs. Bloch was
rushed to the stairs and
dragged down three floors.
At the age of 73, she could
only walk with difficulty
and the walking stick she
normally used was left be-
hind in her room. She vir-
tually fell down six flights
of stairs," Kyemba said.
"On the third floor, she
was dragged in her hospital
gown right through the casu-
alty department, where
patients were waiting on
rows of benches for treat-
ment. She cried for them to
help her. No one moved."
Kyemba added "The last
they or anyone else saw of
Mrs. Bloch was as she was
pushed through the doors
on to the street. Two cars
were waiting outside with
their engines running. Mrs.
Bloch was bundled into the
back seat of one of them
and they drove off."
News of the abduction
was phoned to Kyemba at
home who immediately
rang up Amin. The presi-
dent "expressed offhand
surprise at what his angry
minister of health had to
say. "Is that so?" he said.
4 'J will look into it." Half
an hour later, Amin phoned
Kyemba back, made small
talk for a couple of minutes
and then said, "Oh, by the
way, you know that
woman? Forget her. They
have already finished her."
The man who claims to
have been the last white
person to have seen Mrs.
Bloch alive is Dr. C.A. Bon-
nini, an Italian who spent
two years as a consultant
surgeon at Mulago Hospital
and who now works in
Milan. Interviewed in The
Observer, he said he last
saw her alive at Mulago
about 5:30 p.m. on July 4.
His account differs only in
minor details from that of
Kyemba.
Dr. Bonnini says that the
French Ambassador had
sent two members of his
staff to look for her. "Final-
ly I got to the room where
Mrs. Bloch was in bed," he
said. "I gave her the news
of the raid. She was very
happy to hear about it natu-
rally. She seemed in excel-
lent spirits and asked me
when she could hope to be
released from the hospital.
As she had completely re-
covered from a minor oper-
ation I said I -would see
what I could do to get her
discharged the following
morning."
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Dr. Bonnini returned to
the operating room where
he had been treating some
of the Ugandans injured in
the Israeli raid. Next morn-
ing he went immediately to
the Indian doctor who was
looking after Mrs. Bloch.
The Indian told him that
four Africans in civilian
clothes had arrived about
8:30 the previous evening
and taken her away by
force. Mrs. Bloch screamed
and struggled but she was
dragged away.
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This was confirmed to
Bonnini by ward nurses
who said that when Mrs.
Bloch got to the lift she was
struggling so hard that the
Africans strangled her to
keep her quiet "and that
she was most likely dead
by the time she was taken
out of the hospital building.
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Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Sought
in Bizarre Chicago Deaths
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CHICAGO (JTA)—Ber-
nard Carey, the Illinois
state attorney, said he was
checking whether there was
a neo-Nazi conspiracy in
the bizarre death, apparent-
ly by cyanide poisoning, of
Sidney Cohen, 63, and the
suicide of his apparent kill-
er, a 37-year-old drill press
operator with a record of ar-
rests for participating in
Nazi demonstrations.
According to police re-
ports, the body of Cohen
was found in his home in
suburban Flossmore, by his
son, on May 22. Lying be-
side the body the son found
Raymond Schultz of Calu-.
met City, the drill press op-
erator, unconscious. Police
put Schultz in the back of
their squad car but found
when they arrived at the
precinct station that Schultz
had somehow taken cyanide
and killed himself.
In a routine search of
Schultz's home, after an au-
topsy indicated that both
men died from cyanide poi-
soning, police found what
was initially headlined as a
list of Chicago Jews
marked for death. Sub-
sequently, the police said,
the "list" was found to be a
scrap of paper, with two
names, one of Cohen and
one which was either a "La-
vine" or "Levine."
Police said Schultz, de-
scribed by neighbors as a
"loner," was not a member
of the tiny neo-Nazi party
in suburban Skokie. In 1962,
according to police records,
Schultz was arrested in a
neo-Nazi demonstration. He
was wearing a swastika ar-
mband.
The police said they
found a note in Schultz's
home which read: "With
the help of God and AH I
can get it all done by July
1." They theorized that the
initials referred to Adolf Hit-
ler, and that the "it" might
have referred to a schedule
of planned killings, presum-
ably of area Jews, which
Carey said he planned to in-
vestigate.
Guest Speaker
The Honorable Moshe Landau
Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Israel
Dinner Chairman:
Louis Berry
Co-Chairmen:
Max Stoliman,
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The police said they also
found in a hidden room in
Schultz's home several gal-
lons of cyanide, bomb com-
ponents and an electric
cattle prod. The police said
that, apart from Schultz's
arrests over his Nazi activi-
ties, he had no criminal re-
cord.
Schultz's apparent suicide
made it impossible to learn
exactly what had happened
in the Cohen home but po-
lice suggested Schultz
might have forced Cohen to
inhale cyanide fumes and
was overcome himself.
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