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...summer of 1954, air-crew briefing rooms at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport were abuzz with reports of construction at an air base near Sanya, a town at the southern tip of China's Hainan island. To date, the runway had been all bitumen, a surface suited to propeller aircraft but given to melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view...
Senior Patricia Kemp (1 g, 4 a) is the leader of a veteran defensive unit that includes sophomore Brooke Bestwick (2 g, 9 a) and junior Eva Nahorniak (2 g, 5 a). Behind the blueliners, sophomores Liz Connelly, Sanya Sandahl and transfer Kristin Perry will platoon at goaltender...
Eagle sweeper Heather Hughes and defensive middie Sanya Withington anchor a defense that held second-ranked Connecticut to one goal...
...prosecution witnesses was Dr. Sanya Lipavsky, a KGB agent provocateur who had apparently worked a classic frame-up on Shcharansky. First, Lipavsky had volunteered his services to CIA agents at the American embassy in Moscow. U.S. intelligence sources have conceded that Lipavsky worked for the agency for nine months, providing information about dissidents. After he was dropped by the Americans, who belatedly suspected his KGB connection, Lipavsky shared a flat with Shcharansky for a short time. He thus provided the link the KGB sought to establish between the hapless Shcharansky...
Most important, the regime has already made clear that it has a star witness to link the leader of Soviet "refuse-niks"-Jews who have sought but were refused permission to leave the country -with the CIA. Dr. Sanya L. Lipavsky, a Jewish surgeon who knew Shcharansky, signed an "open letter" to Izvestiya last March in which he implicated Shcharansky in an alleged, largely Jewish spy ring that supposedly included dissidents, U.S. embassy officials in Moscow and members of the American press corps...