LS British families leaving plane at Luqa. MS people coming down plane steps. Angle shot families coming down steps. 6 MS pan families walking across tarmac, people being greeted on runway, baggage being unloaded from plane, pan people boarding coach, Army stores being unloaded from plane onto forklift truck, slip pan GTV pan May Day procession. LS float with Maltese cross in procession, CU cross inscribed in centre "Malta Labour Party". LS crowd of people with banner "Socialist Greetings from Swedish Labour Youth". TV people marching behind banner waving small flags. LS Dom Mintoff watching & waving from truck. CU map of Malta and picture of Mintoff on top of large wooden construction, pan down to "Quabal Issa" on cross piece and "Malta" in large letters on stem. GV procession, sun float M 107,000,000 on LS beauty queen on sun float pan up to model of sun, lorry behind carrying picture of Mintoff on radiator grill.
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Luqa Airport, Malta, where just a few months ago, the British Forces and their families left the Island. After much discussion, a settlement was finally reached and the men and their families now return.
