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...just about 1 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) on Sept. 1 when Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 007, cruising southwestward from Anchorage over the Bering Sea in the early-morning darkness, came under the watchful eye of Soviet radar. For the next 2½ hr. the blip moved into and out of Soviet airspace. When it crossed over the eastern border of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Soviets scrambled four MiG-23s and Su-15s from the Petropavlovsk airbase on Kamchatka to search for the intruder. Just after 3 a.m., over the Soviet island of Sakhalin, where another six interceptors had given...
...number of speed and distance records. He decided to donate the plane to the Experimental Aircraft Association at its convention in Oshkosh, Wis., and flew in from Phoenix by way of the Pole. The trip north across Canada required seven hops, and on July 31, after 10 hr. 1 min. of dodging cirrus clouds to avoid icing, Taylor became the first person to reach the Pole in a plane so small. "I overflew it, identified it, took some pictures and got the hell out," he said. "That's a really weird place...
...effort to prevent further violence, the Israeli government dispatched reinforcements of border police and paratroopers to Hebron. A 24-hr, curfew was imposed. Within minutes of the announcement, Hebron's merchants rolled down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders...
...Japanese lead the world in the number of hours spent in front of the TV set. A 1982 study shows that in Japan the average family spends 8 hr. 15 min. a day watching TV, in contrast to 6 hr. 43 min. in the U.S. Television ownership is the highest in the world. Some 98% of homes have a color set (U.S. 89%). Another recent study reveals that the tube has become so essential that 31% of the Japanese would rather part with their cars, refrigerators, newspapers or telephones than give up their TV screens...
...turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean Becker 2 hr. 10 min. to exorcise. The movie stinks, but Adjani makes it sizzle. With One Deadly Summer this French Barbie should find her way into the closets of many more overage little boys...