Word: mistaken
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...missile controversy is the symptom of a revival of patriotism, and to some extent nationalism, among West European leftists, who are increasingly resentful of U.S. leadership of the alliance. That feeling has led to a widespread but mistaken belief that the U.S. is trying to force the new missiles upon recalcitrant Europeans. In fact, the idea was first advanced by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who in 1977 sought to persuade a reluctant Carter Administration of the need to counter the Soviet nuclear missile threat in Western Europe. Although his Social Democratic Party lost the elections last March, in part because...
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...
...will not do to pin it on "Communist morality," or the lack of it. The People's Republic of China shot down a British airliner on July 23, 1954, killing ten of the 18 passengers. The Chinese took responsibility for the incident, explained that they had mistaken the airliner for a Taiwanese military aircraft, and offered compensation. Why couldn't the Soviets do the same...
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...
...interceptors. When the French pilot of the jet seemed to ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit conversations from the crash later revealed that the pilot had mistaken the Israeli interceptors for a friendly Egyptian fighter escort. Chastened, the Israeli government issued an apology and paid more than $3 million in compensation...