Word: guam
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...bearing his name in Harvard Square. As it turns out, John Kelly's work in leading the subway construction was but one of his many accomplishments in a life that epitomized determination and spirit. Most notably, he was a veteran of the Marine Corps, first seeing active combat in Guam during World War II, then returning to service during the Korean War. The spirit of the Marines stayed with him throughout his later years. He often approached a project with the sentiment, "We do things here the Marines' way, and that way they get done right." This work ethic translated...
DIED. SCHOICHI YOKOI, 82, die-hard Japanese soldier who emerged from his jungle hideout on Guam 27 years after World War II ended; of heart failure; in Nagoya. When leaflets drifted down from U.S. planes announcing the war's end, Yokoi suspected foul play on the part of the Allies. Counting the years by the cycles of the moon and crafting clothing from tree-bark fibers, Yokoi honored his pledge never to surrender. Two hunters who stumbled upon him in 1972 passed on the news of Japan's defeat...
Take Mary Andes, 69, a former schoolteacher in Virginia, Maryland and Guam with a lifelong love of flying, who earned her pilot's license in 1981. Today Andes hops around the Mariana Islands in the Pacific at the controls of a Cherokee-6 commuter plane for Guam-based Freedom Air. Then there is June Bond, 72, a retired music teacher and an experienced bookkeeper who puts in 40-hour weeks in the accounting department of the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, Calif. "I want to be part of the world and not part of some pity party," Bond says...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
...Though federal investigators will probe every angle, Shannon reports there is more focus on the possibility of human error in the air rather than on the ground, where the Guam airport control tower is staffed by private contractors instead of government employees. Shannon says that's not a big issue, because such arrangements have existed for decades at light-traffic airports...