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...Nicaraguan moves have met with intense skepticism at the White House. Administration officials are inclined to believe that the reforms are largely cosmetic, aimed at fending off an invasion without achieving any genuine change. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We see no real evidence that the Sandinistas have changed their basic philosophy toward human rights and expression of views by opposition groups...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick made statements last month that in effect indicted the U.S.S.R. for deliberate, cold-blooded murder of the airliner's 269 passengers and crew. But last week the Administration admitted that the proof, far from being irrefutable, is nonexistent. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We do not have the evidence" to show conclusively that the pilots of the Soviet interceptors and their ground controllers knew what kind of plane they were downing...
...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...
...pilots and their ground controllers rushed to destroy the jet without making sure what it was, rather than take what they judged to be the greater risk of explaining to Moscow that they had let an "intruder" plane get away. That would still be utterly inexcusable behavior. Said Romberg of the Soviets: "They had the responsibility to find out. If they didn't, they were incompetent or negligent, or both...
...State Department quickly ridiculed Meselson's theory as "the great bee caper" and stated that its scientists had already rejected such natural explanations. Spokesman Alan Romberg pointed out that one sample of a yellow raindrop weighed 300 mg, which, he said, "is certainly more than a bee could drop." The greatest flaw in Meselson's theory, Romberg continued, is that it fails to explain why yellow rain contains fungal poisons, or mycotoxins, which are present in doses large enough to kill a man, let alone a bee. The Government contends that mycotoxins have been found in the bodies...