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...NUMBER of angles from which to consider Korean Airlines Flight 007 continues to grow. Forger for the moment questions of who was to blame, who warned or didn't warn whom, how to avoid such tragedies in the future, and so on. Consider this instead...
...addition to the roadblocks Dukakis has ordered increased police patrols to nab drunk drivers, visited local high schools to warn managers about driving while intoxicated, enlisted an estimated 100,000 truck drivers to report suspected cases, and set up alcohol rehabilitation programs for convicted offenders...
...real issue is that the Russians wantonly shot down an unidentified, and perhaps unwarned (let us wait until the black box is found before trying to decide if the cannon bursts fired to warn the Korean pilot were even noticed--the Russians botched the rest of the operation, so why not this?) plane intruding in its airspace, have refused to admit error or to apologize, and have brazenly stated that they would (and will) do so again. This is the truly repugnant aspect of the entire affair--the utter barbarity of the Russians, the callous disregard for human life...
...somewhat undercut the American position. A remark by the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the airliner, originally said to be unintelligible, was revised to read, "I am firing cannon bursts." This seemed to buttress the Soviet claim that its pilot had fired tracer shots to warn the Korean jetliner away from Soviet airspace...
TIME'S economists see strong growth but warn of lurking deficits...