Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything was normal at the start of Korean Air Lines Flight 902, which left Paris one afternoon last week on the polar route to Seoul with 110 passengers and crew members aboard. Under a veteran pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, 46, the Boeing 707 followed a normal course over the North Sea and Greenland and headed toward Canada's Ellesmere Island on its 8,455-mile run. But then, about 3½ hours away from a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska, Captain Kim did something extraordinary: he made a 180° turn back toward Europe...
...Union on SALT were abruptly rejected and détente was endangered. He has advocated a policy, favored by Vance, that emphasizes the cooperative as well as competitive nature of détente and stresses applying pressure through private diplomacy rather than public polemics. A World War II glider pilot, Shulman still likes to go gliding occasionally for relaxation...
...Pretoria-appointed administrator general, Justice Marthinus Steyn, began to enact a number of reforms, making equal pay mandatory for blacks and whites, removing the hated pass and immorality laws that still rule the lives of blacks in South Africa, and ending a ban on political meetings. Mudge, a pilot who tirelessly flies his own plane around territory, told an audience of grim whites in the mining town of Tsumeb: "If we can't come to an understanding with them [the nonwhites], we might as well cancel the election and begin to oil our guns. You can't fight...
...onetime Spitfire pilot's political second coming...
...tall, handsome onetime fighter pilot is still firing away, but he seems to be surviving. Not only does Weizman, 53, now have Dayan's old job at the Israeli defense ministry in Tel Aviv, he has also long been considered a leading contender for Begin's job-which, of course, he says he does not seek. "I'm very happy in what I'm doing," he told TIME last week, "and I can enjoy it for many years...