Word: planes
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...said William Rogers last week after North Korean MIGs shot down a Navy EC-121 reconnaissance plane. The Secretary of State's observation was precisely to the point. The attack was the second atrocity perpetrated by North Korea in 15 months. Again the U.S. found it prudent not to strike back, and this time 31 Americans were dead. There was anger and embarrassment in the Pentagon at this new humiliation. On Capitol Hill, Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, proclaimed: "There can be only one answer for America-retaliation, retaliation, retaliation!" But the predominant reaction...
...flights permanently, thus conceding the field to the North Koreans, and plunging into a military contest that the U.S. might not be willing to sustain. He announced that the flights would resume. "They will be protected," he pledged. While he refused to divulge details, it later appeared that fighter plane cover would be made available if needed-either from land bases in South Korea or from a naval task force that was being assembled, which will include several aircraft carriers...
...from the Soviet destroyer Vdokhnovenie pieces of the downed aircraft that the Russians had collected. President Nixon said the U.S. was "most grateful" for the Russian help, but there were ironies on both sides. The Russians were presumably interested in having a look at any pieces of the downed plane's electronic gear that they could turn up. The U.S. spy planes often fly along the Soviet littoral near Vladivostok during their rounds of the Sea of Japan. Russia, as well as North Korea, may be a target for their inquisitive electronic ears (see box opposite...
Above Oratory. If the Russians seemed particularly helpful, it was perhaps because they themselves were growing leary of the erratic North Korean Communists. Even so, the Soviets may benefit from North Korea's attack on the U.S. plane. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato took an unusually forthright pro-U.S. position after the EC-121 went down, but Japan's citizenry has become increasingly edgy about the risks attendant on playing host to the U.S. military. Moscow-as well as Peking and Pyongyang-would like to see American strength reduced in the far Pacific. With...
...less spectacular type of spy plane is the slower patrol aircraft that measures radar capabilities and eavesdrops obliquely on enemy radio communications from a distance. The plodding, prop-driven EC-121 shot down by North Korean MIGs last week is a military version of the Super Constellation airliner. The EC-121 is an ungainly bird, its basically graceful lines awkwardly broken by wartlike plastic radar domes above and below the fuselage. Four piston engines give it a cruising speed of only 300 m.p.h., but it has immense range. It can fly 6,500 miles, staying aloft for more than...