Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-west.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!twister.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "James Oberg" Newsgroups: japan.asia.korea,soc.culture.korean Subject: Aug 31 (EDT) -- KAL-007 Shootdown 20th Anniversary Lines: 20 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.162.26.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.austin.rr.com 1062192086 24.162.26.209 (Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:21:26 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:21:26 CDT Organization: Road Runner - Texas Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.asia.korea:401 Aug 31 (EDT) -- KAL-007 Shootdown 20th Anniversary This Sunday is the 20th anniversary of the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 by the Soviet Union (Sep 1, local time). It was probably the second (to the Cuban missile crisis) nearly-hottest point in the Cold War, as Andropov's paranoid conviction that Reagan was preparing a nuclear sneak attack on the USSR had their side near hair-trigger. Then this tragic accident compounded by knee-jerking, and things tottered.... These days, I'm most interested in any anniversary coverage with the theme of "questions persist", mostly about long-discredited conspiracy theories. Anybody interested in well-grounded in-depth assessment of the aviation catastrophe, and the way it was represented and MIS-represented for political and ideological profit, I invite to my home page collection of articles. http://www.jamesoberg.com/kal-007.html Jim Oberg joberg@houston.rr.com