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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1983
Page
3
Washington reports released by the White House include radio trans mission excerpts from two Soviet pilots involved in the downing of Korean Air Lines flight 007 last week. The transcripts show the SU 15 and MiG 23 pilots confirming targeting, launch, destruction, and breakoff of the attack in Greenwich Mean Time.
President Reagan imposed limited diplomatic and aviation restrictions on the Soviet Union after the Korean Air Lines disaster. He demanded truth, justice, and an apology, calling the incident an atrocity and mass murder, and vowed to seek compensation for victims’ families. The address stressed safety of skies and accountability from Moscow.
Soviet media defended the interception of the South Korean airliner and blamed Washington for the passengers death. Genryk Borovik said the anti aircraft defense fulfilled its duty while portraying the plane as spying over the Kamchatka Sakhalin region and denouncing the United States as the source of provocation.
In San Antonio, crowds line up nightly to view what is believed to be the Virgin Mary image formed by a porch light reflecting off the bumper of Mary Ibarra’s 1975 Chevrolet onto her house. The sight attracts visitors from Laredo and locals, with hymns and rock music and some teens moving the car to make the image shift.
Lebanese forces breached Druse defenses to take the Khalde intersection near Beirut as heavy fighting raged in the mountains around the airport. ABC journalists were wounded or missing, and police reported 31 deaths and 83 injuries in Monday’s clashes, raising the two day civil war toll to 82 dead and 216 wounded.
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