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- <text id=90TT2936>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: Fly The Proletarian Skies
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 25
- Fly the Proletarian Skies
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
- </p>
- <p> Mikhail Gorbachev may have the Nobel Peace Prize, but that
- still doesn't bump him up to first class. While President Bush
- flies in a new $325 million Boeing 747-200B, the Soviet
- counterpart is a humble Ilyushin II-62M straight off the
- production line. "Aeroflot One" carries an advanced
- communications system but lacks the missile-deflecting
- capabilities of its U.S. counterpart. Air Force One rests in a
- new hangar at Andrews Air Force Base; Gorbachev's craft sits
- on a Moscow tarmac like any other Aeroflot jet. In winter,
- workers clear ice and snow off the plane by hand. When Gorby
- wants to fly on short notice, the crews have to be fetched by
- messengers because only two of the ten pilots have home
- telephones.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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