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...aboard had left Saigon illegally for Bangkok. Mills immediately went to their aid. At Bangkok he found the stranded 58 Vietnamese under the baleful eyes of Thai authorities. Mills took the whole bunch under his wing and told the immigration authorities that he would sponsor the group. He persuaded Swissair to fly the 58 to Hong Kong; the airline was technically violating the law, since the Vietnamese had no proper landing clearance or onward transportation. Never fearing, Mills cheerfully paid out $8,100 of his own for the group's passage. As Mills told TIME Correspondent David Aikman...
...President Thieu and Cambodian President Lon Nol carefully hedging their bets and gilding their nests for a comfortable exile? That, at least, would be one plausible explanation for some recent negotiations involving members of the Saigon government and Balair, a charter-airline affiliate of Swissair...
...Rabin, had to scramble for their safety as well as their dignity. At Damascus International Airport, meanwhile, 10,000 delirious people, ignoring streams of water played on them from fire-engine hoses, broke through cordons of paratroopers who attempted futilely to hold them back. Finally, the Red Cross-chartered Swissair 747 had to stop short to avoid running over people. Thus last week did Israelis and Syrians react to the repatriation of uninjured prisoners of war -382 Arabs and 56 Israelis-under terms of the disengagement agreement worked out by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...Swissair Flight 491 taxied to a stop at Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned...
...waiting red and white DC-6 also owned by Balair. The buses unloaded 26 Israeli prisoners of war, who went aboard the plane. They were the first of 245 Israelis being repatriated. Meanwhile about 8,200 Egyptian prisoners will go home aboard the Balair planes and a chartered Swissair...