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Haynes radioed the tower that he thought he could reach the airport. But he was unable to line up the plane for a landing on Runway 31 (on a northwest bearing of 310 degrees), where most of the emergency crews were waiting. He told the tower that he would aim instead for Runway 22 (southwest at 220 degrees), which was 6,880 ft. long -- just enough to handle a DC-10 under normal circumstances. When the jet appeared headed toward Runway 22 on a surprisingly level and steady approach, anxious ground observers were elated. Haynes radioed the tower, "I think...
...seven frustrating years, law-enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest have combed the region for the mysterious Green River killer, so named because many of his victims were found near the Green River in King County, Wash. Between 1982 and 1984, when the murder spree appears to have ended, the shadowy killer may have snuffed out the lives of 48 women, most of them drifters or prostitutes, who were stabbed or strangled. After committing more than $15 million and as many as 55 officers to one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history, police have finally identified a "viable suspect...
...real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing to leak and let gas through. Built for $2.35 million by Battelle's Pacific Northwest Laboratories and based largely on Disney technology, this is one expensive G.I. -- but then the taxpayer needn't worry about feeding or paying...
Differences between the two approaches show up starkly in the Kirov's foray into Balanchine: Scotch Symphony, set to Mendelssohn, and Theme and Variations, with its vibrant Tchaikovsky score. City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Francia Russell, a former soloist who is now co-artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, went to Leningrad to teach the works to the Kirov. Russell, who prepared Theme, had the harder assignment because the choreography is difficult for even Balanchine dancers. Both women learned that the no-nonsense rules they live by do not apply at the Kirov. By American standards, classes were...
...meeting in Salem, Ore., was dubbed "the Spotted Owl Summit." The title referred to the threatened bird that federal courts recently protected when they prohibited logging in parts of the Northwest and also to the fact that most of the big guns of Oregon politics were taking part. Attending the summit were Governor Neil Goldschmidt and all seven members of the state's congressional delegation...