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...Nuisance. On and off for several weeks, the Russians have been sending up fighters to harass Western planes. Last week the Reds announced dozens of air corridor flight plans that would put Soviet transport planes at precisely the same altitudes at precisely the same times previously allocated to Western aircraft. This maneuver turned out to be sheer bluff; the Russian flights usually were canceled at the last minute, or the pilots simply chose a distant, safer course. But Moscow now tried another nuisance technique...
GROMYKO: "I know nothing of the difficulties you mention in the air corridor...
Last week, as Communist troops remained on the offensive in South Viet Nam and as Russian jets buzzed Allied planes in the Berlin air corridor, there seemed little likelihood that international talks could lead to anything beyond more talks...
...number of Western rejections of Moscow's "reasonable" requests, the Russians might try to walk out of the Air Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space...
Elevators I--You first have to find them. If you want to go up to see the lovely view, you have to go into the building, take several steps down, walk through a corridor, go several steps up, go outside, walk along another corridor, go back inside, and try a right. It doesn't always work...