pollack@uicsl.UUCP (09/05/83)
#N:uicsl:16300011:000:1617 uicsl!pollack Sep 4 15:39:00 1983 Write a short story explaining the downing of the KAL flight. Political leaning doesn't matter, but creativity does. Here's mine: Viking Funeral -------------- Larry MacDonald was dying. His doctor diagnosed a terminal illness and granted him a matter of months to live. Rather than dying hairless in a hospital, our leading member of the John Birch Society wants a hero's death; he wants to sail into the stinking ocean of communism to meet his maker. "Give me a Man's way to die: behind commie lines. The other 'mercans on my plane will be sacrificed to the "Holy Cause of a White America, and the rest are only Chinese - there are enough of them in the world." Having a fellow "Freedom-Loving" agent switch the navigational tape, the 747 proceeded into Russian Territory. "We don't talk to communists, and we don't follow behind communists," the hijacker said as he pointed a gun at the Korean Pilot. As the Commercial Airliner silently flew deeper and deeper into the Military Installation, Russian Airforce Captain Nokom Offski had no choice under regulations, but to shoot her down... ....... Widow: "My Husband was the best communist fighter in our country. Those dirty, evil, godless Russians shot down a whole plane just to kill him..." "Freedom-loving" Senator: "I think it is clear to all God-Fearin Americans that the Russians are an evil, lawless empire, bent on world conquest. If they can shoot down an innocent passenger plane, think of what they'll do to the poor democratic people of Central America..." "Jerk in Netland" "Nuke the Russians"