brown@rochester.UUCP (Chris Brown) (09/02/83)
Despite the many encouraging reactions I've received to my hoax theory of the alleged downing of a Korean jet, it looks like the weight of evidence indicates that some incident occurred. You just never can tell what those Russian scamps are going to get up to next, can you? Still, it's not all bad, I guess. I'm thinking of our Georgia congressman, who must have died happy with all his theories and efforts more than amply justified -- not a bad way to go, actually. Looks like his wife is more than able (not to say willing) to carry on where he left off, with his brother the doctor to help her over the rough spots. I predict that ultimately it will turn out that the MiG pilot either a) didn't know it was loaded, b) was cleaning it and it went off, or c) was only kidding around and trying to scare them. I hope everyone sold wheat futures short...
cjh@ihuxr.UUCP (09/07/83)
What does anyone think about the connection between the 747 and the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior incident??? With all of the bad press they received after that, is it possible that, using their ??sound?? reasoning, that they decided that anything violating their territory is going to try to expose, embarrass or humiliate them? In this context it makes some sense in a weird way. This doesn't mean that I condone their doing this, but that it is a different value system and may be valid in a violent, under developed society. They're still sub-human scum in my book, C. J. Holzwarth ihuxr!cjh