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...security at most major airports has been beefed up since the TWA hijacking. In Tokyo, all approaches to Narita Airport are monitored, and each arriving car, passenger and possession is scrutinized. Nevertheless, local radicals made two attempts to disrupt flight operations last year. Even if airports could be converted into safety vacuums, says Richard Lally, director of security for the Air Transport Association of America, "the threat is always changing. It could be sabotage or hijacking or assault." It is that chilling uncertainty that places a potentially deadly weapon in the hands of determined terrorists. --By John Moody. Reported...
...comes out next month with Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin, will be Cannon's first $100 million grosser. The script has terrorists taking over an American airliner and Norris and his Delta Force flying to the rescue, spraying bullets everywhere. The plot sounds very much like last summer's TWA hijacking, which caused the production schedule to be speeded up. But in the much improved Cannon version, the good guys win, and the bad guys are sent to their proper, bloody reward. Golan, 56, and Globus, 42, follow what was once Hollywood's golden rule: audiences love happy endings...
...growing number of major U.S. companies, including such firms as Exxon, Federal Express, Greyhound Lines, Southern California Edison, TWA, IBM and Lockheed, require all job applicants to pass urinalysis tests that screen for drugs. Some firms demand that experienced workers undergo such tests when the danger of impairment is simply too great to chance. At Rockwell, company pilots and employees who work with explosives are tested once a year...
...bulls were really running last week. From consumers to financiers, nearly everyone was celebrating the belief that the economy is kicking into high gear. Thanks to low inflation, the boom machine could hum smoothly for years. Carl Icahn, TWA's new chairman and top stockholder, struggles with a strike and mounting losses. The World Bank's new lender in chief...
...TWA's new chairman and controlling stockholder has got nothing but trouble. As a strike by 6,000 flight attendants grounded nearly half of TWA's flights last week, the carrier's losses rose higher and higher. TWA had a $123 million deficit in the final quarter of 1985 and is expected to drop almost $200 million more in the first three months of this year. Concludes Robert Joedicke, an airline industry expert for the Shearson/Lehman Bros. investment firm: "Icahn has bitten off more than he can chew." The chairman, though, is maintaining a brave front. Says...