Word: kal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Romberg was reacting to a New York Times story that claimed most U.S. intelligence experts now believe the Soviets really might have mistaken KAL 007 for an American reconnaissance, plane. But that assertion, intelligence officials told TIME, goes too far in the other direction. The most that can be said is that there is no evidence that the pilots or their ground controllers ever made a positive identification one way or the other...
Before the KAL shouting about half of the Japanese people they agreed with the government's desire increase defense spending Eight percent went no for as to say they would refine to fight if Japanese were to be invaded. Now, after the tragedy, Prime Minister Nakasons of Japan continue to battle an image of himself or a "hawk" the worst possible label to incur in Japanese polities. And his national five-year defense plan, moderate in increases by any standards, is already behind schedule...
...accused of. Instead, it defends and counterattacks in order to save face. If you want a country like the Soviet Union to accept responsibility, you have to assume it acted out of innocence. From the beginning, the U.S. should have said that it regarded the shooting down of KAL Flight 007 as an act the Soviets would never knowingly commit, that it was an unfortunate tragedy. This approach would have presented some chance of eliciting an apology and compensation. The line our Government took only fueled the Soviets' paranoia...
...everywhere. When God commanded the prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh and order the city to repent, Jonah found the prospect so daunting that he tried to run away. God found him and sent him back. (Nineveh repented.) After KAL 007, one suspects that today even He would hesitate before dispatching Jonah on a similar mission to Moscow. -By Charles Krauthammer
...lesson of this now thoroughly irrelevant debate over the meaning of a small number of hazy facts is one that we didn't need KAL 007 to tell...