Word: paranoia
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...just another way of letting the Soviets off the hook one more time. The ludicrous implication of the majority view is that the United States, with all its militant posturing, is in some way to blame for this incident because it has not made sufficient efforts to assuage Soviet paranoia...
...abhorrent to Western democracies. Yet it should be apparent--given the many invasions of Russia throughout its history, the 20 million Soviet World War II casualties, and Moscow's fear of aggression from both the East and the West--that these acts result at least in part from Soviet paranoia. A consistent Western policy of economic exchange, decreased rhetoric and serious arms control negotiations based on compromise--as opposed to the present Administration's "all or nothing" approach--will serve to assuage Soviet fears and thus make tragedies like that of flight 007 less likely to occur...
...shot down, the Korean airliner was only 11 or 12 miles-a mere 90 seconds or so-from international airspace, and the Soviet planes were low on fuel. The Soviets' main consideration at that point may have been to avoid letting it escape. A mixture of paranoia and bureaucratic rigidity makes the Soviets extremely sensitive about their territory. They have long feared encirclement by hostile forces. Any invasion of airspace, even inadvertent, is regarded by them as hostile...
Such precautions and even more extreme ones do not mean that U.S. businessmen are succumbing to a kind of mass paranoia. So far, no one is known to have tapped a rival's computer over long-distance telephone lines, like Milwaukee's schoolboy 414 Gang. But the fact is that many companies, especially those in highly competitive industries, are frequently the targets of espionage activities...
...cheers, then, for Strange Invaders, a fond burlesque of alien-visitors movies of the 1950s. Indeed, its story begins in that Eisenhower decade of blandness and paranoia. A spaceship full of E.T.s has come to earth on a 25-year leash; now time is up and, just before the aliens leave, some humans are getting nosy. Which are the victims, which the villains? Hard to tell, since the reptilian aliens have assumed human form - except that they dress, speak and act as if it were still 1958 and they were all featured players on Father Knows Best...