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...attack ended a diplomatic initiative that had begun with high expectations and that was to have broadened South Korea's ties to other nations in the region. Burma's President U San Yu condemned the bombing as a "premeditated and dastardly act" by terrorists who he said were seeking to disrupt relations between his government and South Korea. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the slayings "a great calamity, which deserves to be condemned." Said Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke: "No one can gain or draw satisfaction from this wanton act of terrorism." Both...
...made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...swashbuckler. He landed his Bell Jetranger III helicopter in Fort Worth not long ago, after flying around the world in three stages. Smith is notorious for his publicity stunts, but his troubles were real enough. He was shot at by fishermen off Greenland, he landed in quicksand in Burma, and over the northern Pacific bad weather nearly forced him to miss a refueling ship. Smith's understated conclusion: "I was extremely lucky to get back. I would never try it again...
...Accordingly, the CAAC demanded consultations with the U.S. "at the earliest possible date" to select a new U.S. carrier without Taiwan connections for the China run. At the same time, the CAAC letter took more direct action, terminating Pan Am's access to an air corridor from the Burma border across southern China to Hong Kong and rescinding the airline's emergency landing right at the Canton airport as an alternative to Hong Kong...
...penalties signaled a tough new approach by Peking to the whole matter of U.S. commercial links to Taiwan, but they were not as harsh as some U.S. diplomats had expected. Pan Am has never used the Burma air route, and the loss of Canton for emergency landings is not as dangerous as it sounds, since planes flying into the area always carry enough excess fuel to divert to another city if Hong Kong airport is closed. Significantly, Peking stopped short of terminating the 1980 Sino-U.S. aviation pact and unilaterally banning Pan Am from the mainland, a move that...