Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes, the President indicted the Soviets for a "crime against humanity" that had "absolutely no justification, either legal or moral." He used the word "massacre" six times to describe it. In a key passage, Reagan asserted, "This attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere...
...will automatically emit a sonar signal that can be heard for up to five miles under water. Many of these boxes have been recovered in the past, but if the one from KAL Flight 007 is in Soviet waters it may never be made available to the U.S. or Korea for analysis. Even if it were, there are some questions that only the crew of the jet could answer. Others could be cleared up only by the Soviet military, which has probably revealed as much as it ever will. Here are the key aspects of the jetliner disaster...
...sister jet. Also bound for Seoul, it would follow Flight 007 by about 20 minutes. Many of its passengers joined those from Flight 007 in waiting out the 90-min. rest stop. There was no hurry, since Kimpo would not open until 5 p.m. (6 a.m. in Korea...
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms stepped off Flight 015. He was part of an official six-man congressional delegation representing the U.S. at a conference in Seoul to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty between South Korea and the U.S. Helms stopped to chat with a young Australian couple and their two daughters from Flight 007. "She was reading to those beautiful little girls," he recalled later, through tears. "It was the most marvelous thing you could have seen." With Helms was Idaho Senator Steve Symms. They looked for Georgia Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, who was scheduled...
...voyage across the Pacific took six weeks, and no wonder. The ocean-going tug Arctic Shiko had quite a cargo to haul: a complete seawater treatment plant, longer than two football fields, 110 ft. high and weighing in at 26,000 tons. Built in South Korea and designed by Bechtel for Arco Alaska at a cost of $350 million, the STP has been floated into position in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Toward the end of the 4,000-mile journey, summer ice and high winds in the Bering Sea became a problem, but the huge plant managed to beat...