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...years as well as in the 1956 film, and for which he won a Tony Award and an Oscar, almost obscured his achievements as a movie performer, photographer and TV director; after a two- year battle with cancer; in New York City. He was born Taidje Khan on Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought...
...still missing and feared dead. Material losses are estimated to be $48 million. The timing of the storm was a tragic coincidence for South Koreans: it began on Sept. 1, the first anniversary of the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by a Soviet jet fighter over Sakhalin Island...
...been exactly a year since a Soviet Su-15 jet fighter blasted Korean Air Lines Flight 007 out of the sky over Sakhalin Island, hurling 269 civilians to their deaths in the Sea of Japan. On the anniversary, the inevitable conspiracy theories are attracting worldwide, and often uncritical, attention, perhaps more than at any other time since the incident. Some of the allegations, contends Roy Godson, a U.S. intelligence expert at Washington's Georgetown University, are a result of "a massive, overt disinformation campaign" by the Soviet Union...
...extra swing around the earth changed Columbia's path. As a result, when the ship swooped out of its last orbit, instead of coming in south of Australia and over the western Pacific, it passed only 80 miles above eastern Siberia in the militarily sensitive area of the Sakhalin Peninsula where Soviet aircraft shot down a South Korean jet last September. Never before had a manned American spacecraft flown so low over Soviet territory; happily for NASA, there were no grumbles from the Kremlin...
Shortly after the fiery end of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a senior Reagan Administration official said the U.S. had "irrefutable" evidence the Soviets knew that the plane they blasted out of the skies over Sakhalin Island was a commercial jet. The President and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick made statements last month that in effect indicted the U.S.S.R. for deliberate, cold-blooded murder of the airliner's 269 passengers and crew. But last week the Administration admitted that the proof, far from being irrefutable, is nonexistent. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We do not have the evidence...