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WASHINGTON--President Reagan, calling Americans "a compassionate people," said yesterday the U.S. government will compensate the families of those who perished in an Iranian airliner shot down by a U.S. Navy cruiser...
...announcement, the White House said there would be no lowering of the U.S. military profile in the Persian Gulf. And Reagan stressed that "there's certainly going to be no compensation" for the Iranian government...
According to Admiral Crowe, the action began when a helicopter from the Vincennes was fired upon at 10:10 a.m. local time by Iranian surface vessels. Before long the Vincennes was in combat with at least three armed Iranian speedboats, two of which were sunk and a third damaged. During that battle, the radar aboard the Vincennes detected an aircraft heading toward the ship at high speed -- approximately 520 m.p.h. The plane was at least four or five miles away from any air corridor normally used by commercial jets. Crowe insisted that the Vincennes had tried to communicate with...
Crowe dismissed parallels between Sunday's accident and the Korean Air Lines disaster. The Iranian jetliner, he pointed out, had flown into a combat zone, unlike the KAL plane, which merely strayed into Soviet airspace. The admiral emphasized that the tragedy had to be viewed against the background of the growing hostilities in the gulf over the past two years. He cited the May 1987 engagement in which an Iraqi missile hit the U.S.S. Stark and killed 37 American seamen and the subsequent incidents in which the tanker Bridgeton and the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts, a frigate, were damaged...
...Navy shoots down an Iranian passenger plane that it mistakenly assumed was an attacking fighter jet. President Reagan calls the incident a "terrible tragedy," but says the U. S. S. Vincennes was "firing to protect itself...