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Despite the growing pains that the Pacific rim will inevitably face, TIME'S economists agreed that the outlook for the region is exceptionally bright. "Asia is hooked on growth," said Kim. That is not likely to change. -By Charles P. Alexander
...Ring magazine's count, 439 men have been fatally injured in boxing matches since 1918. South Korean Lightweight Kim Duk Koo is the latest. His body was unhitched from a hospital machine last week and allowed to join his brain in death four days after a left-right combination by Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin...
...Kim Duk Koo started to die on television, but Ernie Knox went in a more usual way, before 869 people in a crumbling coliseum in Baltimore. That was about 20 years ago. Recalled Mr. Mack: "I said, 'Ernie, we better go to the hospital.' Water was pouring off him like a spigot. Ernie didn't have a mother or father, just brothers. If Ernie got into trouble, the phone rang here. But it didn't ring much. Ernie was good. He went into a coma at 2:30 in the morning. I stayed with...
...Kim was declared legally dead in Las Vegas last night, and the comatose boxer's mother said his organs would soon be transplanted "so that another person can live...
District Judge Paul Goldman declared the 23-year-old legally dead at 9 p.m. Kim has been unconscious since fighter Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini knocked him out in the 14th round of Saturday night's lightweight title bout...