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...contraption looked like a giant red-and-white kite as it purred across Israel's northern border from Lebanon. Powered by a lawn mower-size engine and a small propeller, the hang glider whirred its way three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Death from the Skies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Typifying the Celtics' Jekyll-Hyde performance on the road and at home was reserve center Greg Kite, who had a crowd-pleasing blocked shot against Magic Johnson and nine rebounds yesterday after totaling 30 rebounds in 16 previous playoff games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Capture Game 3 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...came in and gave them a lot of inspiration," Worthy said of Kite, who helped the Celtics build a 56-41 rebounding advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Capture Game 3 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...This gives us a little bit of life, almost like CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation]," Kite said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Capture Game 3 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...miss three weeks of the season. The Pats don't have to shop around for another split end; they just call up a player from their Boston College farm team to replace him. Same thing for basketball. Bill Walton gets hurt? No need to invent a stiff like Greg Kite--the Celtics just call up Rony Seikaly from the Big East League and have him fill in for a few games. Then send him back to Syracuse when Walton recovers...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Play Ball | 4/21/1987 | See Source »

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