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- <text id=90TT1490>
- <title>
- June 11, 1990: World Notes:Albania
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 11, 1990 Scott Turow:Making Crime Pay
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- ALBANIA
- Duty-Free For All
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> "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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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