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- WORLD, Page 37World NotesALBANIADuty-Free For All
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- They claimed it was a language problem. If so, members of
- Albania's national soccer team and its accompanying under-21
- team seemed to have confused the word duty-free with "all free"
- during a recent three-hour stopover at London's Heathrow
- Airport. The party of 37 loaded up with $3,400 worth of goods
- at a duty-free shop, then left without paying.
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- "By the time they got to the gate, there were watches
- everywhere," said one airport official. The police were not
- impressed with the soccer players' alleged language
- difficulties and locked up 30 of them. After 24 hours of
- searching unsuccessfully for a translator, the police decided
- it would be easier to call it off, and escorted the Albanians
- aboard their flight to Iceland. According to one official, the
- footballers may also have had language difficulties in Rome,
- because they were carrying items from that airport's duty-free
- shop.
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