Word: rc
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...hundred feet--the KAL plane was, of course, at over 30,000 feet), and thus that the plane could not have been spying, for this is not the issue. Nor is the issue the true incompetence of Russia's air defenses which failed to tell the difference between an RC-135 (Boeing 707) spy plane and a 747 commercial jetliner, and which so botched the issue that by the time Russian jets finally intercepted the slow-moving plane after it had meandered for more than two and a half hours in sensitive Russian airspace, it was almost in international airspace...
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...
...sophisticated equipment, which would require visible changes in the shape of the jet and the addition of large antennas, a high-altitude flight at night by a 747 would have little use in reconnaissance. Such a mission would be worthless from the U.S. standpoint, since American satellites and the RC-135s provide far more detailed intelligence than any modified 747 could. The U.S. has never sent out a 747 on a spy mission, Air Force sources insist. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was vehement in his denial of the spying charge. Said he: "Nobody on earth but the Soviet authorities...
...arts festival with $450,000 in support from American Express. Only a fourth of the anticipated crowd showed up. Such misadventures have not deterred the city of Chicago. Many companies back its summer Chicago Fest. Annual cost: about $6 million, almost $700,000 of it from Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, Budweiser and Miller, among others...
...down/ Let's start livin' our dream/ Make the whole world our town." Royal Crown Cola suggested that "me"-decade selfishness was really an aristocratic demand for perfection: "What's good enough for other folks/ Ain't good enough for/ Me and my RC." Datsun started capitalizing in 1977 on the American obsession with Japan's supposed workaholism and business acumen via "Datsun, We Are Driven." Ford appealed to the old can-do spirit with "We Make the Impossible Possible...