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...Kem Jones, the proctor for Holworthy's middle entryway, put up posters advertising the event in advance, according to residents. About 60 Holworthians met at 11 p.m. outside their dorm for chants and dancing, said David B. Burns '94, a Holworthy resident...
...down. "We attempted to land three times in grainfields or along roads," Cha said. "But we could not, because of obstructing hills and high-tension wires." Finally, with fuel running out after 90 minutes of searching, Kim decided to set down on a frozen lake near the town of Kem and gamble that the ice would support his plane's 100-ton weight. The 707 slid to a stop just short of a hill at the lake's edge. Kim shouted: "We have survived!" and the passengers burst into applause. Two hours later, the first Soviet troops appeared...
...hours, said Tass, the airliner ignored their orders to land. Premier Aleksei Kosygin was quoted as saying that the Korean jet took "evasive action" instead, in a vain attempt to get away. Finally, reported Tass, the plane came down and landed on a frozen lake near the town of Kem in the Karelian republic. Two passengers were killed and 13 injured, Kosygin told the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and a wing of the plane was severely damaged...
...whole truth. In fact, when the jetliner refused to respond to the Russian interceptors' signals, the Soviets had opened fire on the Korean craft. It was their bullets that killed the two passengers and damaged the plane, forcing it to land on the frozen lake near Kem, a landing one passenger described as perfect. After the landing, Captain Kim told his passengers that his instruments had failed and that he had made the mistake of trusting them rather than, presumably, his own experienced judgment that he was off course. In Helsinki, a Korean airline spokesman confirmed that the error...
Died. James Kem, 74, Republican Senator from Missouri from 1946 to '52, whose crusades against NATO, the Marshall Plan ("a sinkhole"), U.S. involvement in Korea ("unconstitutional war"), federal housing and aid to education ("an experiment in socialism") won him so many enemies that Democrat Stuart Symington unseated him by more than 150,000 votes in 1952, while Eisenhower was carrying the state by 30,000; in Charlottesville...