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THREE planes had just landed close on each other's engine exhausts: a Pakistan International flight carrying a group of Chinese from the Albanian capital of Tirana to Shanghai, a Soviet Aeroflot Ilyushin-18 taking a group of students from Somalia to Moscow, and a TWA Boeing that was transporting American kids in tie-dyed shirts home to their oil-company parents in Saudi Arabia after a summer in the States...
...some inexplicable reason, the Somali students took the side of the Americans and crowded menacingly toward the Chinese, who started shouting in Mandarin for help. Cairo airport police stood aside, fearful of offending anyone. Finally, a Russian flight engineer from the Moscow-bound Aeroflot plane shouldered his way between the Chinese and Somalis...
Smiling broadly and speaking English, he told the Somalis that as a member of the Aeroflot crew, he could give them orders. He told them to go to the bar and have a soft drink, courtesy of Aeroflot...
...Beirut International Airport, customs men have trained dogs to sniff out drugs hidden in luggage. In Tashkent, a woman Soviet agent with a superb olfactory sense sniffed hash carried by three young Americans, who were flying via Aeroflot from Afghanistan to Finland. Two are still serving time in the infamous Potma labor camp southeast of Moscow...
...revenues of $36.6 million in the first eleven months of last year, compared with a loss of $4.3 million in the equivalent period of 1968. Now that it is due to become an international carrier in a small way, its hopes for future growth rest on eventually providing-with Aeroflot -scheduled trans-Siberia flights to Moscow for Pacific Coast residents...