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...article provoked a good deal of anger, particularly from KAL, which sued the magazine. The two sides reached a settlement in a British court last week under which Defence Attaché will print an apology and pay "substantial damages" to KAL. Further details of the settlement, including the amount to be paid to the airline, were not disclosed, but the South Korean government could not hide its pleasure. Calling the article "outrageously distorted," an official declared, "We hope the court settlement will put an end to the seemingly endless speculations about unauthorized missions of Flight...
...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...
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...