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...morning of my final day in Sakhalin, still reeling from excessive exercise of the liver, I boarded the Eins Soya ferry at Korsakov for the five-and-a-half-hour trip across the Sea of Okhotsk to Wakkanai, Japan. Chekhov, too, intended to take a boat to Japan from Sakhalin, but a raging cholera outbreak on the Japanese side caused the good doctor to cancel his trip. I soon passed out in a deck chair for the duration of the ferry ride?but not before musing that, one day, return journeys to Sakhalin might even be fashionable...
...ground, at the Wakkanai radar installation on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and probably elsewhere in the area, voice-activated tape recorders chronicled the unfolding drama. The transcript of the air-to-ground conversations, made public last week, is excerpted and explained below. The chronology is in Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.), using a 24-hour clock (1800 hours, for example, means 6 p.m. G.M.T. and 2 p.m. E.D.T.). Although the full transcript shows four planes in contact with ground controllers, only two closed in for the kill. The number 805 identifies the pilot of the Su-15 who shot down...
Then, at 2:26 p.m., the whirling tape recorders, probably at the Japanese Defense Agency's massive radar installation in the otherwise sleepy town of Wakkanai on Hokkaido's northern tip, caught the incriminating conversations between a single Soviet fighter pilot and his unemotional commander on the ground. As reported in the Japanese press, the key transmissions included...
...Japan reported that rain falling on Oct. 14 on Wakkanai, Hokkaido, was 3,000 times as radioactive as rain analyzed before the Russians resumed testing...
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