Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE : Save Now I was surprised to see in the October issue of The American Spectator, an ad for the English translation of the Soviet propaganda sheet, Pravda. Why pay $630.00...
...Dooley, by Finley Peter Dunne (Collier Books...
...But the constant bombardment of our senses with big, beautiful, fast, shiny, powerful objects all day long with very little respite affects many adversely...
...If we do not get "the gusto," we feel cheated...
...Soviet conspiracy accusations against CORRESPONDENCE THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1986 51...
...not the happiness of tomorrow...
...Not necessarily...
...Any experienced flyer knows that inadvertent course deviations not only can but do occur fairly frequently...
...This idolization of short-term gratification—have it your way—causes many to search only for the pleasure of to-day...
...negligence in a pro-Soviet conspiracy scenario...
...And there is a lot of money involved .. . It may be too late to prevent the damage from a pro-Soviet verdict in the KAL 007 trial, though U.S...
...by Arthur and Nancy DeMoss (Volumes 1, 2, and 4...
...air traffic control radars were never intended to provide help along these portions of the route...
...by Robert Rhodes James (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967...
...Some still hope for a box of candy and a dozen roses...
...It is a national disgrace that the lies of Soviet propagandists can so easily play in our own press as to make us the culprits in an egregious Soviet crime against us...
...Queen Victoria's Little Wars, by Byron Farwell (1972...
...Presumably this would be paid for by higher ticket prices to and from the U.S...
...They may well accept a conspiracy theory against their better judgment as the only way to help the victims's families...
...Tales Of Unease, ed...
...Night of the Long Knives, by Laurens van der Post...
...But, the visible world and the morals most loudly ac-claimed do affect our outlook...
...Shadbolt (Hayward & Son, London, 1974, reprint...
...My immediate reaction was despair, for what he wrote was very true in many instances...
...The Spanish Farm 'Trilogy, by R.H...
...Now, my note of hope on this dismal scene is that some folk, even within the environs of Los Angeles, try to live life in the slower lane...
...Now, the RC-135 story...
...The Chinese pilots who almost allowed their 747 to fall into the sea off the U.S...
...Sir Henry Channon Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed...
...Surely those bereaved by the disaster would not help the Soviets without good reason...
...I don't suggest that the pilots of KAL 007 were actually sleeping, but inattention can produce the same effect...
...Murphy, 48 Argyll Rd., London, W.8, Great Britain...
...He says quite correctly that "Airliners in mid-flight in the North Pacific are on their own, solely responsible for maintaining and reporting their positions...
...George Warren Pacific Grove, California I like Ben Stein...
...In Los Angeles, the sheer amount of glitter, money, and glamor is overwhelming...
...All airlines serving the U.S...
...But it is all futility and folly to attribute their shortcomings and eccentricities to "the momentum of America today" or "the frantic pace of life in get-rich-quick America...
...If brother Stein visits this unoffending hamlet, for instance, he will find that his assumptions don't fit, his responses don't work, and his view of Hollywood as a microcosm of anything but itself is the purest moonshine...
...Isabella Ceplecha Los Angeles, California More on the Massacre Thank you, gentlemen, for giving us, at last, an authoritative refutation of the Soviet disinformation on the KAL 007 massacre which our own press organs have so enthusiastically and reprehensibly disseminated ("Sense and Nonsense: A Reader's Guide to the KE007 Massacre," by James E. Oberg, TAS, October 1985...
...the narrow approach), give the Secretary of State case-by-case discretion to accept U.S...
...James Leveque, 106 Eugenia Dr., Medford, NJ 08055...
...government could leave Soviet propagandists hopelessly isolated...
...Besides, the on-board technicians do nothing more than collect data for recording or direct transmission to the agencies which interpret and make use of it...
...Second...
...But these seem to be the only people who Ben talks to...
...Ben, I feel sorry for Staci, Lois, and your shrink Pal, P. These people need to reorder the priorities in their lives, and maybe you need to broaden the circles you move in a little bit...
...Washington, D.C...
...Frank Egan, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106...
...Now I fly a KC-135, not an RC-135, and so do not know in detail the capabilities of the reconnaissance birds, and could not of course discuss them in detail if I did...
...Jerry Holbert, 901 Marine Dr., Harlingen, TX 78550...
...Mot-tram (hbk...
...I live in Los Angeles and read his column every Monday in the Herald-Examiner...
...No money there...
...government, however, is to convince a jury to find U.S...
...Note that this obviously means that if he is off course and doesn't know it, his position reports will indicate he is on the planned route...
...The Selected Letters: Vol...
...Air Force Merced, California In his otherwise excellent article on the KAL 007 Massacre, James E. Oberg failed to deal with one important question: Why are attorneys for relatives of the massacre victims repeating prothe U.S...
...The material goods ac-cumulated are not bad, in and of themselves...
...The only way to collect from the U.S...
...Dick Woodruff Los Angeles, California After I'd finished reading Mr...
...B-4, Reston, VA 22091...
...Kathleen J. Crjfasi Lanham, Maryland Sex Wars Ben Stein is, as always, both funny and pointed in his piece on Hollywood doings in the November book ("The New War Between Men and Women," by Benjamin J. Stein, TAS, November 1985...
...Hugo S. Cunningham Omaha, Nebraska The Collapse of Democracy, by Robert Moss...
...government at a lawsuit in New York City...
...Collins, CO 80821...
...But everyone who has a general knowledge of the Air Force mission knows this: The purpose and mission of all the RC-135s is listening, not looking...
...Eugene Presley, Rte...
...But they don't usually result in disaster, so we don't hear of them...
...He will of course be welcome...
...There are two ways to handle such problems in the future, however...
...liability for the misconduct of foreign governments...
...west coast earlier this year were almost certainly asleep at the wheel (figuratively at least) when an engine failed with near-disastrous consequences...
...The problem is caused by the War-saw Convention, which sets an absurdly low limit (I believe less than $100,000 per person) for wrongful death verdicts in overseas airline crashes...
...This of course would be a huge windfall for Soviet propaganda...
...The thing that gives these rare fauna their case of the crazies is Smogville itself...
...Collected Poems, by Siegfried Sassoon (original ed...
...Richard Lesh, 2631 Flintridge PI., Ft...
...Why are the families themselves willing to collaborate indirectly with the murderers of their loved ones...
...Sacrifice and hardship, planning and saving, chastity and fidelity get lost inthe mad shuffle...
...Neil McCaffrey, Conservative Book Club, 15 Oakland, Harrison, NY 10528...
...Stein, not all the women in Los Angeles will drive men to homosexuality...
...This can easily be seen to be true if one grasps the simple fact that air traffic control radars do not exist in the ocean...
...Box 1, Ovid, MI 48866...
...I can assure him that there are millions of people in L.A., like me, who have never been to the Hard Rock Cafe, and who have never even heard of Sasch or Voila, and we lead perfectly happy lives...
...But naturally the public lacks specific knowledge of civil air traffic control methods and military capabilities, and I fear that this combined with a climate in which people are ready to believe in the wickedness of their own government has served to make such outrageous lies regrettably easy to sell...
...should carry adequate wrongful-death liability insurance...
...Box 75980...
...Therefore he spends a lot of his time with agents, producers, and their hangers-on...
...Murray Sayle has provided one plausible explanation...
...That is, at least, bet-ter than nothing, right...
...I know how my mind searches for pleasure and how the searches are influenced by repeated messages...
...1936 ed., Oxford University Press...
...Howard, P.O...
...Why pay $630.00 per year for Pravda, when one can purchase a subscription to the Washington Post for a fraction of the cost...
...No one to my knowledge has suggested that an E-3 was in the area of KAL 007's flight path...
...Rinehart Potts, 1223 Glen Terrace, Glassboro, NJ 08028...
...To say nothing of the repeated impact the "media" has, a person must consciously stand back for perspective...
...My only hope is that the sexes will not give up on the other even in Los Angeles...
...Thus its primary concern is with incoming aircraft, and its only capability is to detect, identify, and track aircraft in or near the ADIZ-Air Defense Identification Zone—a narrow (about 200-mile wide) band which surrounds our borders...
...L. Filler, S.R...
...By paying a little extra money up front to those who need it, the U.S...
...Calhoun, 2606 Terrace, Midland, TX 79705...
...Tales For A Rainy Night, ed...
...Some still know the meaning of love...
...enemy air force's tactical capability...
...by John Burke (1961...
...Tom Wicker's repeated fulminations based on the despicable Pearson article ought to make any American, or even any honest person, gag...
...continued on page 51) 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1986 (continued from page 6) But why was the airplane so far off course...
...Some Do Not, by Ford Madox Ford (hbk...
...Oberg's points and perhaps add one or two...
...What does all of this have to do with relationships between men and women...
...As a pilot with the Strategic Air Command I feel able to emphasize a couple of Mr...
...Alas, we have not the capability of monitoring Soviet airspace except perhaps the very small area where its proximity to our own territory places it in range of the border radars...
...We want instant gratification whether it be professionally or sexually...
...But won't a sensible jury reject these flimsy accusations...
...Oscar H. McNew Major, US...
...For that matter, they are not in place in most remote areas of the earth...
...It would seem heartless to present the issue to them in such stark terms...
...First, (the broad approach), repudiate the Warsaw Convention for flights entering or leaving the USA...
...More often than not, I thoroughly enjoy it...
...Anyone who has flown a plane will tell you that as in any other endeavor, mistakes by pilots occur regularly and frequently and that given the right combination of circumstances a relatively trivial one can be fatal...
...But Ben has a problem...
...Oberg deals with this rather summarily, pointing out that various models of the RC-135 differ and that their mission has presumably changed in the 15 years which render Bernard and Eskelson's information obsolete...
...Treasury...
...CORRESPONDENCE : Save Now I was surprised to see in the October issue of The American Spectator, an ad for the English translation of the Soviet propaganda sheet, Pravda...
...Some wish to, some do, demonstrate tenderness to a man they can trust...
...A-Box 29A, Council, VA 24260...
...A person (unless mentally in-competent or very young) is responsible for his/her actions...
...like dousing oneself with a bucket of cold water after a long rest...
...Somehow, the world, the government, or, in this case, the male or female sex, must pay...
...They patrol near the borders of the target area to eavesdrop on and record all manner of electromagnetic radiation emanating therefrom...
...Flashman at the Charge, by George MacDonald Fraser...
...Stein's article, my TAS sank into my lap for my arms had gone limp...
...That leaves the U.S...
...Under this system, KAL 007 relatives could prove their case against the Soviet government and collect any verdict from the U.S...
...Well, I, for one, am very affected by my surroundings...
...Letters and Diaries, by John Henry Newman, (Volumes 17 and 18...
...John Jascoll, 10 Windsor St., Chelmsford, MA 01824...
...Over open water and remote land areas, however, tracking and safe separation of aircraft is accomplished by the controlling agencies only by means of periodic reports from the pilot of his position and his estimated time of arrival over subsequent points on his intended route...
...In an aviation physiological training class for pilots I attended once, the instructor asked how many people in the class had ever been on a flight during which at some point all the crew were asleep—literally taking a snooze...
...People, he cheerfully admits, who can often be the slime of the earth...
...And if he stays longer than the weekend he may find that the prospect of returning, for any reason including Hollywood easy money, is a frightening thing indeed...
...More generally, anyone who says he believes that such a thing occurring accidentally is a practical impossibility is either highly naive or highly mendacious...
...Richard Carreno, Fabyan, CT 06245...
...III, by H.P...
...As to land-based military radar, its purpose is to defend our borders...
...As one who escaped from it four years ago and had to go through a sea change to adjust to normal people again I know whereof I speak...
...The World of Mr...
...officials should seek an out-of-court settlement...
...The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, by S.H...
...One man rather sheepishly raised his hand...
...Leinaweaver, 12036 Greywing Sq...
...The next logical culprit would be the Soviet government, but it has made clear that it will pay nothing...
...It is great sport, and perhaps even a public serer to number and label and describe these exotic fowl and point out a couple of bubbles off plumb...
...Civil radar coverage of the continental United States is virtually complete, and if an airliner on an Instrument Flight Rules flight plan strays even slightly off course, the pilot is immediately so advised by the radar con-troller...
...Charles Child Walcott, by John O'Hara (University of Minnesota Press, 1919...
...The Family Album, ed...
...But will someone there please re-mind brother Stein that it is not America he's talking about ("in today's America there is only time to take, and to get taken...
...That's the main reason airplanes occasionally crash, even when flown by highly trained and competent professionals...
...The Integrating Mind & Christ and Prometheus, by William F. Lynch...
...Lovecraft...
...He may defect, and ask for asylum...
...Blessed McGill, by Edwin Shrake (Lippincott, 1969...
...Revenge...
...It is the E-3, or AWACS, aircraft which use sophisticated airborne radars to detect hostile targets and provide air battle management in a tactical environment by identifying and tracking them...
...I believe that Pearson made a dubious reference to the presence of a Navy E-2, but even in the unlikely event that is correct, its function was not to track civilian airliners...
...If the U.S...
...I attend a church (the Church of Christ in Culver City) whose members would have a very hard time relating to the stories in his article...
...That is the maximum that bereaved families can collect from Korean Air Lines for their obvious negligence, even though Americans on domestic flights would expect easily ten times that...
...Carl Aschmann...
...Like everyone else, they are confused by the barrage of disinformation about KAL 007...
...A modern airplane will virtually fly itself if it is properly programmed and nothing goes wrong...
...Peter Cachion, The Public Interest, 10 E. 53 St., New York, NY 10022...
...government wanted to, it could later seek reimbursement from the Soviet government...
...it is Hollywood, and it is typical only of itself...
...He works, or is trying to work, in the movies...
...20013...
...The instructor said that more often than not some-one in the class admitted the same thing...
...I work at UCLA, and am surrounded by dozens of people who care about each other, their families, and are very satisfied with life in general...
...by David Alexander (1969...
...Yet, knowing some Los Angeles female exceptions to the rule, I must reply if for no other reason than to reassure myself...
...Treasury...
...A humorless, self-defeating effort to fill the emptiness, the hollowness within, with something, even if it is hatred...
...The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, by Hastings Rashdall (3 Volumes, hbk...
...But we can take comfort in this: The Russians needed over two hours and more than one attempt to down an unarmed airplane, a very large target flying straight and level with its lights on and, almost certainly, emitting an internationally recognized electronic code which continually displayed its exact position to any radar receiver close enough to interrogate it...
...What does that say about di...
...Pogo Books, by Walt Kelly...
...Don't misunderstand that one's actions can be blamed on one's environment...
...Their propaganda machine is just as clumsy, but alas, far more effective...
...So where else can a lawyer find a fat verdict with a large legal fee...
Vol. 19 • January 1986 • No. 1
