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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
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Subject: Update on KAL007 tragedy?
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 14:06:44 EST
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In this month's issue of Transaction/Social Science and Society,
an exchange between Jeane Kirkpatrick and social science commentators
includes some news by Alec Nove on the KAL007 which implies that
an international news consensus pins the responsibility for both
the KAL007's going "off-course" and the KAL007's not responding to
frequent Soviet warnings squarely on the US.

I've not seen a final summing-up analysis on the KAL007 in the US,
except for an article in the Nation magazine, some months ago, which
is hard to judge since no where else have I seen any agreement or
disagreement with its analysis.

Aside from this Nation article, commentary I've seen in the US claims
that the USSR is wholly responsible for this tragedy.  There is very
little news here which contradicts the Reagan Administration depiction
of the event.  (Unfortunately, I don't regularly read the Economist
or Le Monde or Der Spiegel or the other journals I could read)

Can anyone sum up what is now believed to have happened?

Tony Wuersch
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