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...Korean officials formally charged their Communist neighbor with blowing up a Korean Air Lines jetliner in November "with the aim of discouraging foreign countries from participating in the Seoul Olympics." KAL Flight 858, with 115 people aboard, vanished off the Burmese coast; wreckage was later found floating in the Andaman...
...bench outside the airport immigration office in Bahrain. Despite their apparent calm, they were the center of an international storm. Two days earlier they had disembarked in Abu Dhabi from Korean Air Lines Flight 858, en route from Baghdad to Seoul. Hours later the plane disappeared over the Andaman Sea, shortly before a scheduled stopover in Thailand. Officials in Seoul openly speculated that the Boeing 707, carrying 95 passengers and a crew of 20, might have been destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan said the North was intensifying "provocative moves...
Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy, said that an occasional visit from a far-off world is conceivable, but not the three or four a day that have been claimed. "It is as if all the anthropologists in the United States converged on the Andaman Islands at the same time because (the natives) just discovered the fish...
...Moslems and Hindus that the British were trying to make Christians of them. The greased cartridges hit a bull's-eye of hate, and at Meerut 85 sepoys refused duty. After a suitable court-martial, the older mutineers were shackled on parade to be carted off to the Andaman Islands, 600 miles off the Indian coast. Their comrades revolted, killed all the officers and wives they could find, unshackled the sepoys and, for want of another place to go, marched on Delhi...
Last year another government expert visited the Andamans. What the islands now needed, he decided, was a pair of panthers to control the deer. The panthers were soon delivered, and last week New Delhi's Forestry Department announced that they are already making a deep impression on the deer population. Furthermore, it said, there should be no danger of a new epidemic of wild life on Andaman-both panthers are females...