If They Can Do It, We Can Do It

By DAVID ELLIS

Baseball certainly isn't known as the national pastime of North Korea. Condemned as a bourgeois indulgence, the sport was banned when the country was established in 1948. So why is a baseball stadium being built as a "gift" to President KIM IL SUNG for his 80th birthday next April? Apparently Kim changed his mind when he found out that fellow die-hard Marxist Fidel Castro and just about everybody else in Cuba is crazy about the game.

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart