Word: kal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schoolgirls on etiquette. Her Democratic opponent in the close race for Arkansas' Second Congressional District is Tommy Robinson, 42, a roughhewn, tough-talking sheriff who once suggested that a bounty hunter be sent to the Soviet Union to bring back the man who last year shot down the KAL airliner...
...silk blouse to $4,000 for a nifty evening number that shifts along a woman's body like a Slinky, it is moving very smartly, thanks. "The only problem is we can't get the clothes fast enough," claims Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein...
Another conspiracy theory was raised in an unusually speculative article in Defence Attaché, a generally respected London journal. An editor's note disclaimed agreement with the views of the author, who wrote under a pen name. The author's basic claim was that the KAL intrusion on Sept. 1 deliberately coincided with the Far East passes of both a U.S. spy satellite and the space shuttle Challenger. In his version, the airliner was sent over Soviet territory instead of a U.S. electronic-surveillance aircraft because U.S. officials believed that the Soviets would never shoot down a civilian...
Written by David Pearson, 31, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Yale University, the article argues that the KAL crew was unbelievably negligent if it went so far off course without realizing it, and that American experts who track aircraft and eavesdrop on radio transmissions from Alaska to the Far East were even more incredibly incompetent if they failed to spot the errant flight. He contends that these specialists must have been particularly alert since they were aware of preparations by the Soviets to test a new missile on Aug. 31 aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the airliner first...
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democratic and often critical member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, asserts that there was no intelligence bonanza to be gained from a KAL 007 overflight of Soviet territory. The U.S., Leahy points out, has far better techniques for testing Soviet radar defenses than by endangering civilians and, in fact, continually runs such tests. He says he has reviewed still classified information on the airliner shooting and, despite the suspicions of conspiracy advocates, finds nothing in it that would relieve the Soviets of their responsibility...