Word: checkpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Airlines terminal is not the airport's busiest. Braniff's is. American does not have a security checkpoint at each gate. Braniff and Texas International did not send some of their flights back to Love Field as a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, but to compete with Southwest Airlines, which remains at Love...
...design of the American Airlines terminal, the airport's busiest, was completed before new security regulations went into effect, making it impossible to screen passengers for various flights at one checkpoint. As a result, each loading gate has become a security gate, creating delay and confusion. Baggage-handling problems have been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees...
...spur U.J.A. donations in the U.S., Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...terrorists, who later identified themselves as Palestinian guerrillas, first struck at the Rome airport's security checkpoint during the early afternoon rush hour. "I was heading toward the security check, and up front I saw a tall, well-dressed young man," a British stewardess recalled. "As he approached the guards, he put his hand in his pocket and took out a pistol." Instantly, his companions-perhaps as many as seven -opened their overnight bags, took out submachine guns and began to spray gunfire in every direction...
...Kilometer 101," the United Nations checkpoint along the Cairo-Suez road, stood once again at the crossroads between peace and war in the Middle East...