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Smugglling guns and emeralds
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Dear Sergei,
I don't think it would have been legal to carry a gun on one's person or
in
one's luggage in 1959, but smuggling is an ancient art. The question
recalls
an incident from about that time. My best childhood friend had an uncle
who
was the first "terrorist" I ever heard of. He told a stewardess that he
was
carrying a bomb. The flight was terminated and he was arrested. I think
he
was drunk.
Carolyn
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I don't think it would have been legal to carry a gun on one's person or
in
one's luggage in 1959, but smuggling is an ancient art. The question
recalls
an incident from about that time. My best childhood friend had an uncle
who
was the first "terrorist" I ever heard of. He told a stewardess that he
was
carrying a bomb. The flight was terminated and he was arrested. I think
he
was drunk.
Carolyn
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