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===Yuri Andropov===

===Yuri Andropov===

===The Shootdown of KAL 007===

===The Shootdown of KAL 007===

Considered by many as the second or third most critical single incident of the Cold War (after the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] of 1962 and [[Able Archer 83]]), the shooting down of [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] on Sept. 1, 1983 would signal a change in the relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union prompted by the subsequent deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles in [[West Germany]] just 6 minutes from launch to Moscow. A civilian passenger jet carrying 269 passengers on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to South Korea, it had strayed into Soviet airspace and was shot down near Sakhalin Island just as it re-entered international waters. [http://www.rescue007.org/].

Considered by many as the second or third most critical single incident of the Cold War (after the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] of 1962 and [[Able Archer 83]]), the shooting down of [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] on Sept. 1, 1983 would signal a change in the relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union prompted by the subsequent deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles in [[West Germany]] just 6 minutes from launch to Moscow. A civilian passenger jet carrying 269 passengers and crew, including a sitting congressman [[Larry McDonald]], on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to South Korea, it had strayed into Soviet airspace and was shot down near Sakhalin Island just as it re-entered international waters. [http://www.rescue007.org/].

===Konstantin Chernenko===

===Konstantin Chernenko===