Word: cha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host was KCIA Director Kim Jae Kyu, 53. He is a former general and, as one diplomat who knew both men well put it, "a close, long-term chum and adviser in whom Park had a lot of confidence." The other guests were Park's chief security officer, Cha Chi Chul, an even closer adviser, and Park's staff secretary-general...
...resort needs a helping hand. It has lost many vacationers to the Caribbean islands and to attractions like Walt Disney World in central Florida. Many of the old hotels are barely surviving; many shops have shut their doors. Where young people once cha-chaed through the night, now the elderly struggle to survive on their Social Security checks...
Comin' right at'cha. No curves, and short on the fancy moves. Just bedrock rock 'n' roll, the kind of good-natured badass music that keeps you dancing. It can get you a little teary, and get the blood jumping too, like maybe you ought to tear up a couple of seats and pass them up onstage to Bob Seger...
...this point, according to U.S. intelligence experts who monitored the Soviet radio traffic, the Sukhoi-15 flyers evidently lost track of the 707 altogether. Indeed, the Soviet pilots radioed their base that the plane had been shot down. Eventually, reported Copilot Cha Soon Do, one of the interceptors reappeared ahead of the 707 in what seemed to be a "follow me" position. The Koreans tried to comply, but could not: the lead-footed Russian roared off too fast...
After that, the Koreans meandered over the 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...