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...reduce airport damage in case of explosion. Security guards ride aboard some Swissair and Olympic flights, and El Al has judo-trained guards armed with Beretta pistols on every flight. Airports almost everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever developing foolproof security. Says one: "If a man is dedicated enough to die for a cause, air-piracy laws and the threat of extradition...
...testimony he insisted that the receipts were a mere "formality." Not so, said a spokesman for one of the donors, Chicago Police Superintendent James Conlisk: "The general is engaging in falsehood." Last June, seven of the weapons were seized as part of an illegal arms shipment to rebels in Haiti...
...said the stamps and several thousand dollars worth of merchandise were stolen from the Penn Central Railroad during interstate shipment. Most of the merchandise was recovered, the FBI said...
...costs running up to $4,000,000 per well. This will constitute a radical infusion of money into Alaska's economy, which up to now has been largely dependent on federal aid. A $900 million pipeline is planned to bring the oil to the port of Valdez for shipment by tanker to West Coast markets in the 1970s, just when Texas, Louisiana and California fields are expected to go into decline...
...voyage. Some residents of northern Alabama even foresee a role for the barge ships in the U.S. space program. If a projected canal is built, they expect space vehicles made by Wernher von Braun's team at Huntsville to be floated by barge to Mobile, Ala. for ocean shipment to Cape Kennedy...