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The Asian heavens have revealed many omens to South Korea this year: last winter a North Korean pilot defected to Seoul in his MIG 19; last May a Chinese airliner was hijacked on a domestic flight and forced to land in South Korea: over the summer a Chinese pilot flew...

Author: By Karl Moskowitz, | Title: South Korea, Caught in the Cold War Again | 9/30/1983 | See Source »

To the impulse for speed was added the driving force of "struggle." In Yanan (see box), where the clean dry air is intoxicating and the heavens are close enough to touch, "struggle" had become doctrine. Nothing was impossible if his will could drive his people to "struggle against the mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

It was only eight years ago that John Moody, lacking the money to buy a conventional light plane, put a go-cart engine on a hang glider and putt-putted 300 yds. through the air. Moody, now a Kansasville, Wis., ultralight-plane dealer, started a fad that last month took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Risking It All | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

INDIA. From the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan foothills, villagers are making offerings of rice and flowers to the rain god Varuna, and schoolchildren begin and end their days by praying for rainfall. But the heavens have rarely responded. In the space of six weeks, 100 of the 8,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Drought, Death And Despair | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

The six members of The Collaboration creep and crawl and slither onto the stage, swinging their arms around and shrieking like monkeys. One of them spots the microphone in the center of the stage reaches up, touches it, and screams. Then he straightens up, grabs the mike, scans the audience...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Anything Can Happen | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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