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...Studies meeting in Ottawa last week commented on the "juvenile" level of radio chatter by the Soviet pilots and their apparent confusion about what they should do. "The question arises," said Stephen Larrabee, a member of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, "whether the finger on the nuclear trigger is equally uncertain...
...Perhaps if any good has come of this tragedy," Reagan said last week, "it is that the Western democracies better appreciate that peace will take more than gestures of good will and sincerity." At home, Reagan's moderate response served to counter critics who fear he is too trigger-happy in dealing with the Soviets, while lending support to his view of them as part of an "evil empire." This is likely to translate into less opposition to his plans to build the MX missile and increase military spending. An indication of the changing congressional mood came last week...
...commander in the Soviet Far East. Without exactly saying so, Ogarkov indicated that he had been informed only after the Korean liner had been destroyed. That raises a terrifying question: Are Soviet military forces under firm enough control by the Kremlin civilian leadership to prevent their obvious hair-trigger mentality from creating an incident that could start an escalating military clash between the superpowers...
...past 30 years, attacks on civilian airliners have been rare. The Soviets, however, seem to have a quick trigger. Last week's incident marked the second time in just five years that Soviet fighters have shot down a passenger jet. In 1978, Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 902 with 110 passengers and crew on board was cruising routinely from Paris to Seoul when navigational equipment apparently malfunctioned. Disoriented, the pilot veered 180° off course and penetrated Soviet airspace near Murmansk, above the Arctic Circle. For two hours the jet flew serenely over sensitive strategic submarine and bomber bases...
...that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal, and so, with the approval of flight engineers, the crew turned off the trigger-happy sensor, relying for fire warnings on the others aboard. "They handled it with easy skill," said one flight director, "like the old pros that they...