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From: welsch@houxu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: USSR shoots down 747 - informed speculation for jj
Message-ID: <196@houxu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 17:19:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 17:19:28 1983
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rabbit!<can't hurt my reputation any further>jj says

	Informed speculation welcome, knee-jerk decriers of the US government
	keep it down unless you have some FACTS to bring up.

	I'm just WAITING to hear why some of you think it's the US's
	fault.  I just can't wait! :-]

Well rabbit!jj, what about the Koreans. Here's some informed
speculation from Friday's, September 2, 1983, NYT page A7
Article "Side Effect: Peek at U.S. Intelligence Abilities." Maj.
Gen. George J. Keegan Jr., retired, former chief of Air Force
intelligence, in a telephone interview said:

	I have never failed to be surprised at how careless the
	Koreans are despite the risks of flying near Soviet
	airspace.  Despite all that the Soviets had there, the
	Koreans continued to fly too close.  The Koreans
	continued to bruise the Soviets on this.  What happened
	today they invited.  They should have flown much farther
	away, over Japanese air space.


					Larry Welsch
					houxu!welsch