May Day the hard way

Rico says that he remembers 1 May 1960, even if most people don't; the article is from the 5 May issue of The New York Times:

Premier Khrushchev said today that a United States plane on a mission of "aggressive provocation aimed at wrecking the summit conference" invaded Soviet territory on 1 May and was shot down. The Premier, in the most blistering speech against American policies he had made since his meetings with President Eisenhower last autumn, declared that the incursion, as well as declarations by United States policy makers, cast gloom on the prospects for the success of the summit meeting in Paris eleven days hence.
The most sensational section of Mr. Khrushchev's three-and-a-half hour speech, made before the opening session of the Supreme Soviet, the nation's version of a parliament, was that concerning the charges of United States violations of Soviet airspace. Mr. Khrushchev actually had been called upon to open the Supreme Soviet session to deal exclusively with sweeping new domestic policies that will affect every Soviet worker: gradual abolition of income taxes by 1965 and by next year, reduction of the work day to seven hours and an upward revaluation of the ruble.
However, the Soviet leader seized the occasion to discuss foreign policy and the summit conference. He apparently had determined to tell the Soviet people that recent Western actions and statements had darkened his previous optimism.
The Premier predicted to foreign diplomats earlier this week that his talk on foreign and domestic policies would contain major surprises. Indeed, his report of the plane incident came as a shock to Westerners and Soviet citizens alike. The United States Ambassador, Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., would make no comment on the development.
Mr. Khrushchev declared that actually there had been two incidents involving intrusions by United States military planes during the last month. One plane, he said, flew from the direction of Afghanistan and was permitted to leave without military action or subsequent diplomatic protest. On May Day morning, he said with emotion, "when our people were celebrating their most beloved holiday," another plane crossed the southern borders and, on quickly delivered orders from the highest authority in Moscow, was shot down. The Premier gave no details as to the type of plane, which was said to bear no markings, or the fate of the crew. (The United States said the plane was a U-2 carrying a crew of one.) He declared that it was presumed by the Kremlin that both planes had been based in either Turkey, Iran or Pakistan "which are linked with the United States in the aggressive" Central Treaty Organization.
Mr. Khrushchev said the Soviet Union intended not only to protest to the United States over the second incident but also to take the matter before the United Nations Security Council. His Government also will extend "serious warnings" to countries that permit the American planes to be based on their territory, he added.
These heated disclosures raised an explosive outcry of bandits, aggressors, and other angry expletives among the more than 1,360 deputies gathered from all over the Soviet Union to give quick and unanimous approval to Mr. Khushchev's policies.