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From: cdp@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Airport safety
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 22:59:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 22:59:00 1985
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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.