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...pilot, name not given, who had shot down KAL 007; he insisted he had tried to warn it to land. He followed by a day a news conference in Moscow for both Soviet and foreign reporters that was televised live by satellite around the world. The main speaker: Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet Chief of Staff and as such the top professional soldier in the U.S.S.R...
Could the Soviets have mistaken their target for a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane that had been on a mission in the region near where the Korean jet went off course? Marshal Ogarkov reiterated the Soviet claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles...
...system known as Identification: Friend or Foe (IFF). This device, which is ordinarily used only by the military, allows allied planes to identify themselves to each other by correctly responding to secret electronic passwords. The Korean jet, of course, did not identify itself as a Soviet-aligned plane. Marshal Ogarkov said that Soviet pilots "repeatedly tried to contact the intruder" on the frequency assigned for international emergencies, but there is no evidence of this in the published transcripts. President Reagan charged that Soviet planes are not equipped with the emergency radio frequencies because the Kremlin fears they might be used...
Nixon would marshal our economic power through a new foreign economic policy board reporting directly to the President. It would help forge an "iron link" between the Soviets' behavior and the West's willingness to trade with them...
...staff in Sacramento. The riders are Reagan, Clark and Clark's father William, formerly a rancher and the police chief of Oxnard, Calif. In the corner, Clark's gray stetson dangles from a hat rack. Near by, encased in glass, rest the Colt .44 revolver and marshal's badge that belonged to his grandfather Robert Emmet Clark, once the sheriff of Ventura County and a U.S. marshal...