Word: kiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kite flyby. More than 3,000 kites made by schoolchildren in Tours, France, will be joined together and flown, creating a colorful arch across the Cher River...
...Smithsonian Institution and has done more than any other person to preserve the record of the nation's great venture into flight. Paul E. Garber was born just as the Wright brothers began to inquire about flying machines. When Garber was five, his uncle gave him a kite, and his fascination with the sky was fixed for a long lifetime...
...months later, Ritter was making headlines in the New York Post. The newspaper reported that the district attorney's office was investigating allegations by Kevin Kite, a 26-year-old former prostitute and drug runner with a history of lying. Kite claimed that he had an eight-month-long sexual relationship with Ritter after the priest brought him from New Orleans to New York City in 1989. He also alleged that Ritter diverted up to $25,000 in Covenant House money to finance the affair. Ritter denies Kite's story, although he says he helped get Kite a scholarship...
Ritter explained all this by saying that like many former drug runners, Kite needed a fake identity to be protected from the Mob. Ritter brought Kite's father to New York, where he declared that his son was a chronic liar. Still, Ritter warned, copycats might surface in the wake of Kite's allegations...
...Times, which published them last week. The Times also reported that a third man, Darryl Bassile, 31, had approached the paper in mid-January to say he too had sexual relations with Ritter. He had complained earlier to the Franciscan friary in Union City, N.J., after he heard of Kite's charges, and it started an investigation. A fourth accusation came from Paul Johnson, 33, an admitted felon who claimed that he was involved with Ritter for six years. Ritter denies that he had a sexual relationship with any of these...