Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff or the allies, would propose something that would end extended deterrence. Nonetheless, there was useful work done in Iceland. I look on it as an intelligence operation. We come away with a clearer vision of the alternatives. We can either have arms control or we can have a crash program to deploy defense. We can't have both. The President has always said SDI is just a research program, and the Soviets say let's limit it to research. It shouldn't be beyond the ingenuity of man to reach some sort of accommodation between those two positions...
...Lisbon, the Portuguese news agency ANOP quoted official sources and aviation experts it did not identify as saying the crash was caused by human error. It did not elaborate...
South Africa's Bureau for Information said the Soviet pilot and nine other people survived the crash. Among the senior officials killed was Transport Minister Luis Alcantara Santos, it said...
There was no indication of foul play in the crash, but the United Democratic Front, South Africa's largest anti-apartheid coalition, said South Africa's recent verbal attacks and diplomatic measures against Mozambique "give us reasonable grounds to suspect South African involvement in this plane crash...
...South African officials would not speculate on the cause of the crash. They said South Africa had proposed a joint investigation with Mozambique and foreign aviation experts should take part...