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Friday, October 23, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Airports score B-in FAA test
Official says one in five mock weapons evaded detection
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One out of five mock weapons slipped through when federal inspectors conducted 10 months of tests on weapons screening systems at airports across the country, a Federal Aviation Administration official told Congress yesterday.
The 80 percent detection rate was identical to the success rate the agency found in a smaller sample of lawyers and several lawmakers dissatisfied.
"Because passenger screening is the most important component of an airport security program, I find these results particularly disturbing," said Chairwoman Cardiss Collins, D-III, whose government activities and transportation
subcommittee conducted the hearing.
Raymond A. Salazar, director of the FAA's Office of Civil Aviation Security, conceded his agency wasn't satisfied with that success rate but said it was trying to spur airlines into improving their detection systems.
From September 1986 through last June, FAA inspectors attempted to carry more than 6,000 mock weapons through weapons detection systems at 138 U.S. airports, Salazar said. About four-fifths of the weapons were detected at the checkpoints, which are staffed by airline employees.
At 34 major airports, the rate of detection ranged from 99 percent to 48 percent, said Kenneth M. Mead, an associate director of the General
Accounting Office, the congressional investigative agency. GAO has been auditing the FAA's efforts to improve passenger screening.
The airports tested were not identified. But six of them had detection rates of 90 percent or better, including one with a 99 percent rate.
Eleven more were successful 80 to 89 percent of the time, 10 had success rates of 70 to 79 percent, four were successful 60 to 69 percent of the tests, two were in the 50 to 59 percent range and one was 48 percent.
During the last four months of 1986, airport screening devices failed to detect 496 out of 2,419 test weapons at 28 major U.S. airports.
Shortage of staff hurts hospital
The Associated Press
NORTON — The Norton State Hospital may fail a federal review this fall because many staffers have joined the Department of Corrections staff, said acting director John Adams.
left the hospital staff to work at the new Norton Correctional Facility.
About 150 prisoners are expected to be at the facility by mid-November.
The Corrections Department began using vacant state hospital buildings at Norton because of prison overcrowding. About 30 people have
replacements as best we can, but we are not having a great deal of success." Adams said. "Most of our replacements are on a temporary basis, and those people will have to be trained."
Jobs with the Corrections Department mean higher pay and a promotion, Adams said. He also said his employees may be worried about job security. The department may be closed by 1980 in a restructuring of the mental health system.
The Health Care Financing Administration soon will review the hospital, and failure of the review because the claims could mean loss of federal funding.
"Of course we are trying to hire
Student's work shown overseas
By a Kansan reporter
Jewelry fashioned by a KU student has been selected to be part of an international jewelry exhibition in West Germany.
Steven Richardson, Fredonia junior, made the piece, then entered it in the Jewelry in Movement-Movement in Jewelry competition sponsored by the Deutsches deutschhaus, Hanau, West Germany.
Jon Havener, associate professor of design, said that jewelry students'
work was sometimes featured in national exhibitions but that it was rare that a student was honored in an international exhibition.
Richardson's sterling silver hair piece with three black jade stones will be on display in Hanau until next July. he said.
The piece was commissioned by an art patron for her daughter's graduation. Richardson said the patron had agreed to loan the piece for a year.
Several other students recently had jewelry they crafted placed on
exhibit at the Downey Museum of Art in Downey, Calif., as part of the Contemporary Metals USA III National Juried Competition, Havener said.
Brian Conlin, Dup Du Lac, Wis,
graduate student; Lisa Dagostino,
Lawrence graduate student;
and Fred Scott, Lawrence graduate
student, all have pieces on display at
the exhibit. Havver said.
The exhibit opens Oct. 29 and will run through Dec. 18.
WEATHER
Reagan
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expected to begin next week.
Reagan said he favored cuts in spending but added, "I'm putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security. I call on the leaders of Congress to do the same."
Key Democratic lawmakers in Congress swiftly hailed that statement. "The next step is the president has opened the door and we ought to move toward walking into it," said Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
The chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. William Gray, D-Pa., said, "I think clearly everyone who heard him understands he has changed his position on taxes."
Weekend
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11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at a tent located southeast of the Memorial Stadium.
For $7.55, picnickers can choose from an Oktoberfest menu, consisting of hot dogs, german sausages and cheese, listening to the Junkyard Jazz Band.
Homecoming activities end with the presentation of the first Buddy Award to Miami Vice star Don Johnson, at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. All seats are reserved cost from $8 to
the 50th anniversary of the KU petro leum engineering program.
Also scheduled for this weekend is
An alumnai reception will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the alumni
An open house will be from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow in 4007 Learned Hall.
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