Word: skyjackings
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...must be serious!' " In fact, what the hundreds of unsuspecting travelers heard was the sound of gunfire. The fusillade signaled the start of a guerrilla attack in Rome last week that turned into the bloodiest rampage in the surreal five-year history of Arab skyjack terrorism. Before it ended 30 hours later-in the sand beyond a runway of the airport in Kuwait-31 people had been killed in Rome and one more in Athens...
...Secretary-General Yitzhak Ben-Aharon. The liberal morning newspaper Ha'aretz warned that "in the wake of this operation, Israel loses the image of a country which respects the freedom of international civil operation." All but obscured in the debate was the stark fact that in choosing to skyjack the Iraqi Airways flight in hopes of bagging Dr. George Habash, a high-ranking leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Israel in effect had decided that ends justify means. There is a growing urge in Jerusalem to knock out the terrorists once...
With those words, the first Palestinian skyjack of 1973 was under way. The jumbo jet's 123 passengers-all but nine of them Japanese-and 22 crew members were the captives of a terrorist team that evidently included both Palestinians and members of the fanatical Japanese leftist group called Rengo Sekigun (Red Army), which last year staged a massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport that cost 26 lives. Astonishingly, Amsterdam airport authorities had been tipped off beforehand by the Israeli secret service that a skyjacking attempt might be imminent, but they took no special precautions...
Most courts have thus far avoided the complications of these "bonus" arrests, which are generally made without search warrants. Now Federal Judge Warren J. Ferguson in Los Angeles has become apparently the first judge to declare a skyjack search unconstitutional. He acted in the case of John K. Meulener, who tried to board an American Airlines flight and activated a magnetometer. Since Meulener also fitted the secret federal "skyjacker profile," which purports to list the characteristics of potential skyjackers, he was thoroughly searched. Authorities found 76 grams of heroin and more than half a kilo of marijuana in his suitcase...
...Federal Aviation Administration has ordered that beginning in January, comprehensive anti-skyjack precautions must be extended to all 531 U.S. commercial airports. Each airline's employees will have to search every package and piece of baggage that is hand-carried onto a commercial plane. Heretofore, this task has been done by ticket agents or other airline employees at big airports and has delayed some flights by as much as 45 minutes. Now the lines will be additionally required to equip all boarding areas with electronic metal-detecting devices that will check the passengers themselves. Trans World Airlines...