World IN BRIEF : FINLAND : 2nd Soviet Plane in Week Is Hijacked
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A young Soviet hijacker claiming to have a bomb in his briefcase forced a Soviet domestic airliner with 78 passengers to land in Finland, then surrendered to police, airport officials said. The hijacker, a 21-year-old Russian identified as M. Varfolomeyev, asked for political asylum in Finland. Soviet authorities have asked for his extradition. It was the second hijacking of a Soviet aircraft to Finland in less than a week and the third to Scandinavia in two weeks.
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