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Monday, September 5, 1983
)owning of jet ‘a military decision’
by Michelle Powe
Battalion Staff
An expert on the Soviet military
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the Kremlin would not have given the
command to shoot down the Korean
jet because the decision was contrary
to Soviet interests and to Soviet fore
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Soviet politicians, Hansen says,
would not have risked cancellation of
this week’s meeting in Madrid be
tween Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko and Secretary of State
George Shultz. The Soviets, he says,
want to convince the West that they
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Two adults and a
one-year-old child died in the crash of
twin-engine plane which had been
missing since Friday night, officials
reported early today.
Victims included Larry Oddis
Gray, 42, of Houston; Betty Rials, 41,
ofHouston; and one-year-old Shan-
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Head
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drum major Adrian Burke, a senior marketing
from Deer Park, stands on the pillar at the
entrance to Kyle Field as he prepares to direct the
Aggie Band before Midnight Yell Practice Friday.
-ocal crash kills 3
inside
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non Gray of Dallas, a Harris County
Sheriffs spokesman said.
CAP Major Bob Price said there
were no survivors in the wreck.
Sunday afternoon search teams
from the Civil Air Patrol and law
agencies found the wreck of a twin-
engine plane carrying three people
which had been missing since Friday
night.
The wreckage was found about
2:20 p.m. CDT in a heavily wooded
area of northeast Harris County near
Lake Houston and close to Huffman,
Texas.
Five CAP aircraft, two Houston
Police helicopters and a Coast Guard
helicopter worked with a ground
search team of 50 people and units of
the Harris County Sheriffs Depart
ment to find the crash site, Price said.
The Piper Aztec left Baytown
bound for Dallas Friday night, Price
said. Radar operators lost contact
with it about 10:30 p.m. shortly after
it took off, he said.
“The FAA will be investigating the
cause of the crash,” Price said.
The Soviets, Hansen says, are
obsessed with the defense of their
homeland - which they believe is con
stantly threatened - and with their
military. They are incredibly para
noid about attack from outside na
tions, he says, and are very conscious
of their military professional image.
Hansen says the experience of
1978, when another Korean airliner
strayed one thousand miles into
Soviet airspace before it was detected
and forced to land on Soviet soil, was
“a tremendous embarrassment to the
Soviets and particularly to their milit
ary.” That experience, he says, condi
tioned the Russians to toughen their
defenses and prevent any further
embarrassment.
Hansen is convinced the Soviets
knew immediately that the object on
their radar screens was a passenger
airliner but were willing to shoot it
down rather than let it get away and
have to explain how it penetrated
Soviet airspace and remained there
for two-and-one-half hours.
Hansen suggests the reason the
Soviets waited so long before taking
any action may have been because the
plane entered Soviet airspace during
off-duty hours and that it took a long
time for information to filter up to
someone with enough authority to
make a decision.
Hansen says that the person who
finally gave the command to fire may
not have even realized the plane was
leaving Soviet airspace.
Another top expert on the Soviet
military, who asked not to be identi
fied, agrees with Hansen that the de
cision to shoot the jet down was a
military and not a political one, but
doesn’t agree that it took the Soviets
two-and-one-half hours to find some
one high enough in authority to make
the decision.
Because the Soviet Air Defense is
so centralized, the official says, the
news of the intrusion into Soviet airs
pace probably spread to Moscow
quickly, but the decision of what to do
was just long in coming.
The official says the Soviets shot
down the jet at the last possible point
they could do so legally, just before it
left Soviet airspace and just before it
could get away.
The official also says there is no
indication that the Koreans knew the
Soviets were interested in them. The
plane reported in shortly before it was
shot down, the official says and the
pilot reported where he thought he
was -- south and east of Tokyo — and
reported no problems.
“Clearly we’re going to have to get
some sort of answer out of the
Soviets,” the official says. “We can’t
just let this thing die out.” Ijut the
official also says the U.S. should let
the rest of the world
See SOVIETS, page 18
Administrative
to be limited to
restructuring
engineering
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
Restructuring such as that done for the adminis
tration of the College of Engineering won’t be done
for any other college at this time, says Dr. Gordon
Eaton, provost and vice president for academic
affairs at Texas A&M.
“I would guess that there will be people in the
College of Agriculture who believe there are close
parallels between the activites and administrative
structure of engineering and agriculture who may
be wondering why we are not doing something
similar there,” Eaton said Friday.
The College of Engineering administration was
restructured last week by the creation of an interim
deputy provost position.
Dr. Donald McDonald, who previously was head
of the civil engineering department, was named the
interim deputy provost and assumed the post
Thursday.
Soviets claim
‘provocation ’
“Part of our problem here in engineering was
that each faculty member and department head
were answering to two bosses up two chains of
command and that was causing difficulty,” Eaton
said.
Currently, the directors of the engineering agen
cies report to the deputy chancellor of the Texas
A&M System, and the dean of the College of En
gineering reports to the provost, Eaton said.
With the proposed restructure, the agency dire
ctors and the dean will report to the deputy provost
who in turn will report to the deputy chancellor and
provost. Eaton said the restructuring will add a
layer of reporting, but will facilitate coordination
among the programs, because all problems will be
handled at a lower level by McDonald, who is an
engineer.
Before, all conflicts were recognized and hand
led higher in the chain of command.
Because of their similar histories there was some
thought that the College of Agriculture also would
undergo similar changes, but differences between
the two colleges make such changes unlikely.
There are three major differences between the
two colleges and their agencies that make it unfeasi
ble to restructure the administration in the agricul
ture college in the same way as the engineering
college, Eaton said.
The differences lie in the agencies themselves,
the number and geographic location of people
working for the colleges and agencies, and differ
ences in government funding.
The agricultural agencies and extension services
are large and scattered around the state, and most
of them have a resident staff, Eaton said. This
allows them to have close contact with the farmers
of the area for consultation.
However, the engineering agencies are all lo
cated on the main campus
See ENGINEERING, page
United Press International
A Soviet air defense chief, charging
a South Korean airliner had violated
Russian airspace in a “rude provoca
tion,” hinted Sunday the jumbo jet
that vanished with 269 people aboard
may have been mistaken for a U.S.
spy plane.
In an important refinement of
Moscow’s previous explanations,
Romanov said the plane “flew with
extinguished lights and its outlines re
semble much those of the American
reconnaissance plane RS-135.”
In Washington, President Reagan
played tapes of intercepted Soviet
military communications for congres
sional leaders and a Senate leader said
later it was “clear beyond any doubt”
the Soviets shot down the jumbo jet
last Thursday.
But Col. Gen. Semyon Romanov,
chief of staff of the Soviet air defense
command, still ignored charges a
Soviet warplane snot down the air
liner.
Korean Air Lines offered to pay
$75,000 compensation to the families
of each victim.
Reagan scheduled a nationwide
televised address for Monday to
announce sanctions against the Soviet
Union, blamed around the world for
shooting down the unarmed Korean
Air Lines jet on a New York-to-Seoul
flight via Anchorage.
“He will want to talk about what
steps we are prepared to take
together with our allies, but more im
portantly I think he will want to de
scribe our overall approach to the
Soviet Union,” Assistant Secretary of
State Richard Burt said.
Appearing on the CBS News show
“Face the Nation,” Burt said the
Soviets had significantly damaged
their self-proclaimed reputation as a
peace-loving nation and could only
repair their image by acknowledging
responsibility.
There were 269 people, including
Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga. and 60
other Americans, aboard KAL Flight
007 that plunged into the Sea of
Japan Thursday about 800 miles
northwest of Tokyo. All are pre
sumed dead.
Protestors, many of whom carried
baseball bats and banners that read
“Kill the Russians,” marched to Kil-
lenworth, a 36-acre compound in
Glen Cove housing Russian diplo
mats, officials said. There were no
arrests.
U.S. officials said up to eight Soviet
fighter planes tracked the jumbo jet
anefa Sukhoi Su 15 shot it down with a
heatseeking missile.
Search boats have found no bodies
in the waters off the Siberian coast.
Government officials in Seoul said
some nylon debris with Korean letter
ing was found off Soviet-held Sakha
lin Island, but searchers could not im
mediately determine whether it came
from the airliner.
In Moscow, Romanov said a “South
Korean plane” strayed into Soviet
airspace Thursday over the Kamchat
ka peninsula and Sakhalin Island —
both bristling with Russian military
installations.
staff photo by John Makely
Twelfth Man at work
California ball carrier Dwight Garner feels the bite of
the Twelfth Man kickoff squad in the third quarter of
Saturday’s game in Kyle Field. Making the tackle for
the Aggies, who were outscored 19-17, is Ike Liles. See
page 15 for a complete story on the game.
‘Limited’ measures for Soviets
Reagan speech planned tonight
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will announce tonight limited
retaliatory measures for the Soviet
downing of a South Korean airliner,
which aides insist could not have been
confused with a U.S. spy plane in the
area.
Soviet fighter jets Thursday shot
down Korean Air Lines Flight 007,
killing all 269 people aboard, after the
jumbo jet flew off course and into
Soviet air space on a flight from
Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South
Korea.
Reagan scheduled a nationally
broadcast address at 8 p.m. EDT to
disclose “strong but limited” steps the
United States will take to ensure civi
lian air safety, aides said. The focus of
the speech will be on international ac
tion to underscore world outrage
over the incident.
Reagan earlier ruled out tough
economic sanctions against the
Soviets, such as a new grain embargo,
or a delay in the nuclear arms control
talks that resume in Geneva Tuesday.
Administration officials acknow
ledged for the first time Sunday that
the Soviets initially mistook the KAL
Boeing 747 for a U.S. reconnaissance
plane also flying in the area.
But, the officials said the identity of
the brightly lit, easily recognizable
KAL jumbo passenger jet could not
have been mistaken as it was tracked
for two hours by Soviet aircraft and
on “very good” Soviet radar for 1,000
miles.
The United States routinely flies
RC-135’s — a military version of the
Boeing 707 airliner—in the northern
Pacific to monitor Soviet compliance
with the Strategic Arms Limitation
Treaty, officials said.
By a “bizarre coincidence,” an
American RC-135 operating in the
area crossed the path of the Korean
airliner over the Sea of Japan when
the two planes were about 300 miles
apart, officials said. But the two air
craft were never closer than 75 miles,
they added.
“Our plane was well outside Soviet
airspace,” officials said.
By the time a Soviet Sul5jet fight
er shot down the Korean airliner, the
officials said, the American spy plane
was 1,000 miles away, still over inter
national waters.
“What seems clear is that they
didn’t care what it was,” an adminis
tration official said. “Their interest
was in shooting it down.
“The Korean plane approached
Soviet territory off course and it was
picked up by Soviet radar. They ini
tially assumed it was an (an American)
RC-135. They were tracking both
planes on their radar.”