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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Foreign Policy Flaming - (nf)
Message-ID: <3120@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 22:26:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  5 22:26:31 1983
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uiucdcs!renner    Oct  5 14:11:00 1983

The Korean airliner that was forced down in 1978 lost a big part of its 
wing when struck by a Soviet air-to-air missile.  It's not reasonable
to say that the Soviets were trying to force it to land; rather, they
tried to destroy it and it managed to land anyway.