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Article: POPE LANDS IN SOUTH AFRICA RAIN FORCES PLANE DOWN.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 14, 1988
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Byline: United Press International
The plane carrying Pope John Paul II on a tour of five front-line black African nations was forced by bad weather to land today in white-ruled South Africa, excluded from the intinerary because of its apartheid policies.
The landing in a country not on the Pope's 10-day intinerary - the first in John Paul's 39 foreign trips - came in bizarre twist of events that included a hostage drama in the cloud-shrouded Lesotho capital of Maseru, the Pope's intended destination.
The Pope's Air Zimbabwe Boeing 707 touched down at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport at 11:15 a.m. and the pontiff was escorted to the VIP lounge ...