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...DOWNING of KAL 007 has generated a number of conspiracy theories, suggesting that the plane was spying for the U.S., intentionally misrouted by the CIA, or a KGB plot to kill conservative Congressman Larry MacDonald. At least five books have appeared supporting such inventions on very scanty evidence...
Like the Kennedy assassination, the KAL incident has created a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists. R.W. Johnson, a politics don at Oxford University, has written Shootdown, which offers the hypothesis that the flight was a surveillance mission designed by the CIA to test Soviet radar capabilities. But Johnson provides no direct evidence for this theory other than that it "fits -- or can be made to fit -- just about all the known facts about the 007 tragedy." David Pearson, a doctoral candidate at Yale, has argued in the Nation magazine that top U.S. officials must have known at the time that...
...Grandmaster Melle Mel. Meanwhile, the show's tropical-chic fashions (especially Don Johnson's typical ensemble of Italian sport coat, T shirt, white linen pants and slip-on shoes) have begun to catch on. "The show has taken Italian men's fashion and spread it to mass America," says Kal Ruttenstein, a senior vice president of Bloomingdale's. "Sales of unconstructed blazers, shiny fabric jackets and lighter colors have gone up noticeably." After Six formal wear is bringing out a Miami Vice line of dinner jackets next spring, Kenneth Cole will introduce "Crockett" and "Tubbs" shoes, and Macy...
...Leah Gottlieb: "I make clothes for people who are comfortable in their bodies." While the company sells its products in Israel in a wide range of outlets, in the U.S. it caters to the chic crowd in such stores as Neiman-Marcus, I Magnin and Saks Fifth Avenue. Says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's vice president of fashion: "They're very innovative and take trends from ready-to-wear collections to their swimwear line...
...oversees about 10,000 dog shows, obedience trials and field trials annually. To boot (now comes the information picked up around the fringe), Ralston Purina is self-described as "the most trusted name in pet foods," while Mighty Dog is "the pure beef brand," though Kal Kan is "the stuff great dogs are made of and Edge is "rich in brewer's yeast...