Word: kal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of press accounts, especially a Boston Globe piece on the unscrupulous KAL organization--have pointed out, the issue can be colored in many shades. However, the conclusions reached by some in the media have proven to be even more groundless than the initial hysteria that provoked them...
...know if the KAL flight over top secret military installations would have served any purpose whatsoever. We also do not now or probably ever will know exactly how much U.S. intelligence knows about Russian military operations, and vice-versa...
...downing of KAL Flight 007 provides what may be some very disturbing answers to the query at hand. For as more and more details concerning the incident emerge, it seems increasingly clear that the decision to shoot down the plane was made solely by the military. These details include...
...statement made by the head of the Soviet armed forces to an extraordinary gathering of Russian and foreign reporters claiming the orders to shoot down KAL 007 were given by a regional commander who did not consult government officials...
...more common this phenomenon becomes, the greater the danger for confrontation between the superpowers. Civilian leaders, even in an authoritarian regime, tend also to be politicians, though on an international as opposed to national stage. Yuri Andropov, had he wanted to shoot KAL 007 down, would nevertheless not have done so had he been in charge. His geo-political concerns--like the attempts to "neutralize" Western Europe, court the Third World and avert if possible the deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles on the Continent--are too great and present in his mind to have permitted such...