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...Soviets' rash act certainly strengthens military hard-liners and gives Reagan an even better chance to win final congressional approval for deploying the MX missile while limiting U.S. concessions in arms-control talks. Jesse Helms made the point well in discussing the Soviets with conservative colleagues in Seoul last week. Said he: "This is the best chance we ever had to paint these bastards into a corner...
...less emphatic. At least four West European governments summoned Soviet diplomats and delivered sternly worded protests about the shooting down of Flight 007. Italy's huge Communist Party fired off a demand to Moscow for an explanation of "this crime"; Japan's Communist Party did likewise. In Seoul, where South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan called the attack a "barbarous act," tens of thousands of South Koreans joined protest demonstrations. Similar marches were staged in Korean-American communities across the U.S. Editorial reaction in the U.S. and abroad was uniformly unforgiving. Britain's Sun posed a question...
...passengers could be looking forward to the flight. They would spend seven hours on the nightlong 3,400 mile leg to Anchorage. Then, still mainly in darkness as they headed away from sunrise in the east, they would face an additional 7½ dreary hours before reaching Seoul's Kimpo Airport in what KAL brochures call "the land of morning calm...
...cockpit cabin. Down on the main deck, nearly all of the 24 seats in the business-class section, where tickets cost $2,380, were occupied. Toward the rear, where passengers could fly for as little as $1,200, nearly 80 seats were empty. Flight 007 was bound for Seoul, but 130 of the travelers planned to go on to more exotic Far East destinations such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taiwan. They were flying KAL because it offered some of the lowest fares to Asia...
Within minutes, an identical 747, KAL's flight 015 from Los Angeles, descended out of the darkness and taxied up to its sister jet. Also bound for Seoul, it would follow Flight 007 by about 20 minutes. Many of its passengers joined those from Flight 007 in waiting out the 90-min. rest stop. There was no hurry, since Kimpo would not open until 5 p.m. (6 a.m. in Korea...