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...eight, Kim Edwards is in the incubator of the national pastime?tee-ball. There are no pitchers in this pre-Little League league. The ball is placed on a waisthigh, adjustable tee, and for five innings the kids whack away. Kim is one of the hottest tee-ball players in Dayton and a fanatical follower of the Cincinnati Reds. Her position is second base. She pulls a Reds cap down over her hair, punches her glove, drops her red-jacketed arms down to rest on red pants, and waits for the action. Kim has but a single ambition: to play...
Confronted by the Prince, Socialist Workers' Party Member Kim Gordon, a British Ghanian, explained that the demonstration was against police harassment. "Couldn't you come together and discuss it?" Charles asked. To the police at his elbow, he said, "What about it?" Before leaving, he accepted a protest leaflet and pleaded, "See if you can sort things out. You cannot go around like this." The intervention drew fire. "I don't care who he is," snapped the head of the police union. "He should not have said anything...
...landing lights, were given. Instead, U.S. officials say, one of the Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin a steep dive to an altitude...
...moonlit countryside, to burn off fuel and find a place to come 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...
...could Kim, 46, a veteran pilot with military experience, stray off course on a run he had flown many times? At least one alert passenger, Kishio Ohtani, a Tokyo camera-shop owner, realized that something was amiss when the Arctic sun, which had been on the plane's right side while it was on course to Alaska, suddenly appeared on the left. According to Ohtani, after the landing Kim explained to several passengers that he began to feel that his compass had gone awry and that his plane had reversed course about four hours out of Paris. When...