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From: steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Feb 15 AW&ST
Message-ID: <505@siemens.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 19:01:49 GMT
References: <1988Mar18.042452.5673@utzoo.uucp> <993@thumper.bellcore.com> <5856@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <5856@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> kevin@cit-adel.UUCP (Kevin Van Horn) writes:
>[...]  The Soviets shot down something that merely
>looked like it might be a spy plane (flight KAL 007) [...]
>
>Kevin S. Van Horn

You touched a nerve here.  The Soviets never NEVER said the 747 looked like
a spy plane.  They said it was on a spying mission.  Our President and our
news did not present evidence that it was on a spying mission (all lights were
out etc.) and made it appear that the soviets claimed it was a spy plane
rather than a spying mission.  The distortion by our press and President was
itself a news item in Germany at the time.  (I went to Germany on a short
business trip at the time, and I was amazed at the difference in the story
here and there.  I no longer believe we have a completely free press in the US.)

Steve Clark, steve@siemens.com