Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!seefromline From: cdp@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Airport safety Message-ID: <12200024@uiucdcsb> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 22:59:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.12200024 Posted: Tue Jul 16 22:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:32:55 EDT References: <134@rruxa.UUCP> Lines: 34 Nf-ID: #R:rruxa.UUCP:-13400:uiucdcsb:12200024:000:1615 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!cdp Jul 16 21:59:00 1985 Doug, you do not seem to follow the news. Read response #2 of the current base note.....If you follow the news you should know that: 1-After the hijacking reporters from various TV stations started this "game" of passing undetected through airport security checkpoints all over the world. They managed to pass undetected in O'HARE airport Laguardia airport (NY) Paris, FR 2- The reporter who was shown on TV passing through the Athens airport security actually passed ONLY through PASSPORT CONTROL NOT THE SECURITY CHECKPOINTS. 3- Just today IATA said (and was on the NBC news and in most major newspapers) that Athens airport is the SAFEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD. 4- Athens airport did not have "a long-standing reputation on poor security" because they operated at least two security checkpoints IN ADDITION TO THE SEPARATE SECURITY THAT TWA (AND OTHER COMPANIES) MAINTAIN. O' Hare for example has only one! Just look at the number of hijackings that originated from Athens in the last 5-7 years (only 2) and compare them with those of other Europian capitals and of U.S. (at least an order of magnitude higher)... 5- One of the Amals who were holding the hostages said that the weapons were smuggled in the plain in Cairo, Egypt and not in Athens. This was also supported by at least one of the TWA crew. these facts (and many other) make it clear that the entire thing was just politics.