Word: kal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact is that Egypt is not Iran, the West is not Rome, Israel is not a crusader state, and KAL 007-despite the public fretting of Professor Stanley Hoffmann-was not Sarajevo. Nor was Saigon, as we once thought, Munich. The real "lesson" of Viet Nam is not, as we are so often told, that everything from Central America to the Middle East is Viet Nam (or some other convenient fiasco). It is that facile historical analogies can prove fatal...
...crisis. And yet it is precisely because of the crisis that the Administration should be asking them. Seldom in times of peace have U.S. forces found themselves to be involved in so many places at once. Navy ships are still searching the Sea of Japan for wreckage from KAL 007. Ground, air and sea forces are still conducting exercises in Central America. Peacekeeping forces are still in the Sinai. And now the actions in both Lebanon and Grenada are requiring large commitments of available ships, planes...
...chord of truth. How could the Soviets put the United States on the defensive before the international community just three weeks after a Russian jet ruthlessly destroyed a passenger airliner with 61 Americans aboard? The answer lies in the unfortunate actions and words of the Reagan Adminsitration following the KAL shooting, and their repercussions on Capitol Hill...
...struggle," or Mr. Gronlyko when in June 1983 he hammered home to the Supreme Soviet the necessity to defend "our borders" of the entire Earanian empire, presumably against such imperialist agressors as Solidarity, the people of Afghanistan, or the unwitting agents of U.S. "special services" such as those aboard KAL, flight 007. The question is more Soviet priorities and capabilities. The Soviet Union suffers low internal morale and economic stagnation. The technology gap widens every year. Japan has passed the USSR as the world's second industrial producer. Military clout and "defense of the gains of socialism...
...American intelligence people now reconstruct the event, Soviet radar at first did erroneously identify the plane as an American RC-135 (a reconnaissance version of the Boeing 707). An RC-135 had been in the North Pacific earlier that night. Though the Soviets tracked KAL 007 with radar for more than two hours, it is now believed that their interceptors had trouble finding the airliner. Not until it was about to leave Soviet airspace did they finally bring it into sight, and then they had to make a quick decision. They shot...