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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...
...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...
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