Anti-communist hysteria over Korean jet | Socialist Action 1983

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THE SHOOTING DOWN of a Korean jumbo jet by Soviet planes is an solute gift to Reagan's anticommunist crusade. If the Soviet leadership knew, or suspected, that the plane was indeed a civilian airliner then its destruction was a foolish brutal action. But there are good reasons to think that this was not the case.

The jumbo jet was inexplicably hundreds of miles off course. The ab- States now admits that one of their spy planes was in the he sed the e the jumbo. airliner was flying over one of the Soviet Union's most important military installations.

Every nation defends its own air space, not least the United States.

First task of the peace movement is to build the 22 October demonstration against Cruise spy plane overflights. It is well known that the SR-71 spy plane overflies China and skirts the Soviet border. times faster than the speed of sound and at 90,000 feet no Soviet plane can fly as high or as fast.

Union is jumpy about planes United violating its air space.

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