Word: somali
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...hardly a dignified leavetaking. A gaggle of Russians, the first of many such groups to run the same gauntlet last week, gathered in the hot, squalid main hall of Mogadishu airport to await an Aeroflot flight to Aden. Somali customs officials, who normally give departing passengers a bored wave-through, set upon the sweating travelers with malicious grins, demanding that they open every suitcase for an item-by-item inspection. At the airport bar, quarrels broke out as the bartender doubled the price of Cokes. A Western TV cameraman recording the pandemonium took an elbow in the ribs from...
...remaining 1,500 Soviet personnel and some 45 Cuban comrades depart Somalia, one of the Kremlin's oldest foreign-aid footholds in black Africa. As one group was preparing to leave, an American Air Force 707 landed, bearing a U.S. congressional delegation on its way to lunch with Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. The delegation's long-scheduled arrival was sheer coincidence, to be sure, but the symbolism was unmistakable...
...been predicted, the Somalis were throwing the Russians out. They denounced their three-year-old friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and they asked the Russians to vacate the Soviet-built naval base at the Somali port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. Soviet military and civilian advisers were ordered to get out of the country on a week's notice, leaving just seven U.S.S.R. embassy employees in Mogadishu-the exact size of the Somali embassy staff in Moscow. Simultaneously, the Somalis broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...According to reports from Beirut, all four hijackers were Palestinians associated with the notorious terrorist Wadi el Haddad. Three died in the Mogadishu raid; the fourth remained in a Somali hos-pitalJast week...
...slain pilot was removed from the plane. They then decided to wait around at the field, on a hunch that Flight 181's four-day odyssey was about to reach a climax. Reports Leroy: "We knew something was coming up at 1:30 a.m. when the Somali police pushed us to a corner of the airport right behind the first-aid center. Later, it happened: gunfire echoed through the darkness for several minutes - they seemed like hours - then silence...