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...slightly more serious vein is the comedy-drama Taxiing, where every week the crew of Aeroflot Flight 3 find new ways to amuse themselves and their passengers as they await permission to take-off from Minsk International Airport...
...those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
Still, tensions persist. The bitterest quarrel concerns the human tide of refugees that washes through the two Berlins. Drawn by advertisements for East Germany's Interflug airline and the Soviet Union's Aeroflot, the impoverished and the war weary from Africa and the Middle East have arrived in East Berlin in droves. Most of them then hop on the elevated railway that connects East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station with West Berlin's Zoo station. Once over the border, the newcomers take advantage of a liberal provision in West German law that guarantees asylum to political refugees. In the first...
Smiling and affable, Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in East Germany last week. Emerging from his Aeroflot IL-62 jet, the Soviet leader, followed by his wife Raisa, flashed his friendliest grin as he greeted East German Party Chief Erich Honecker with a hug and kisses on both cheeks. Gorbachev had come to East Berlin for the East German Communist Party Congress...
Svetlana's trip came one day after her American-born daughter Olga, 14, left Moscow on an Aeroflot flight to London. She is resuming studies at a Quaker school that she had been attending when her mother abruptly took her to the Soviet Union. When asked what she had missed about the West, the girl gushed, "Just the whole thing." Nonetheless, she had nothing negative to say about the Soviet Union, describing her 18-month sojourn there as a "great experience." Olga's father is Architect William Wesley Peters, 73, who was divorced from the volatile Svetlana three years after...