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Article: On the Right - The Long View.(why the U.S. should not apologize to China for Hainan incident)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
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- April 30, 2001
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On Hainan
NEW YORK, APRIL 6
S cene: Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Off-the-record speaker, Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence.
Background: Our pilot, Gary Powers, has been shot down flying a U-2 on a routine spy mission over the heart of Russia. Premier Khrushchev is having an apoplectic fit and the upcoming summit in Paris (DeGaulle, Macmillan, Khrushchev, Eisenhower) is threatened, the scheduled visit by Ike to Moscow almost certainly doomed.
Question from the floor to Director Dulles, who is onstage, smoking a pipe: "The report during the weekend that the United States would no longer fly U-2s over Russia is ...