University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 8, 1988
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FAA reports security lapses
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Security at airport passenger checkpoints is improving, but the government has found enough lapses to levy $1.6 million in fines against 29 airlines.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced the civil penalties yesterday and also said the detection rate for hidden weapons at the checkpoints has improved significantly during the past year.
The airlines are responsible for the checkpoints,
The civil penalties ranged from $1,000 against a handful of commuter carriers - the minimum for a single violation - to more than $200,000 apiece against American Airlines, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines for each having more than two dozen violations. The restrictions are similar for the aircrafts.
although the screening by metal detectors and X-ray machines is normally done by a separate security firm under contract to the air carriers using the airport.
The penalties stemmed from security lapses discovered mostly between April and September of this year when undercover FAA officials attempted to smuggle confidential information and were successful 238 times, according to the agency.
Arafat accepts Israel's existence
Shortcomings at the airport checkpoints came to light in 1987 when during congressional testimony it was learned that more than one in five phony weapons planted by FAA officials failed to be detected at major airports. In December 1987, Southwest employees smuggled a revolver aboard a Pacific Southwest Airline jet and began shooting during flight.
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM — PLO leader Yasser Arafat ended two days of talks with a U.S. Jewish delegation yesterday by endorsing a statement accepting Israel's right to exist.
News Roundup
At a news conference, however, Arafat seemed less straightforward than the document he endorsed, and he declined to confirm or repeat the statement's key clauses.
tion Organization. The Jewish group urged the U.S. government to end its ban on talks with the PLO.
The document, which also denounced terrorism, was hailed by the Jewish group as the most unequivocal acceptance of Israel ever given by the Palestine Libera-
Arafat described it as "nothing new," but was "an accurate reading and interpretation" of the policy declaration adopted last month by the PLO's legislative arm, the Palestine National Council.
The PLO's parliament-in-exile endorsed U.N. resolutions 242 and 338, which recognize the right of all states in the region to exist within secure borders. But the council did not mention Israel by name.
NORTH DROPS DISCLOSURE EFFORTS: Forn
WHITE HOUSE EFFORTS! Former White House aide Omar Olivier efforts to disclose a quarter of the 40,000 pages of classified documents he wants to use to defend criminal charges arising from the Iran-contra affair. Defense lawyers filed a brief statement that they were withdrawing 10,000 pages of CIA intelligence cables on Nicaragua that were listed in North's Nov. 19 notice of government secrets he wants to reveal in a public
ROY ORBISON DIES*RIO*n' n roll pioneer Roy Orbison, whose surging fassetto mourned the mursie of fading romance and who recently had become popular with a new generation of fans, was died of a heart attack. He was 52. The Grammy Award-winning Orbison, famed for hits like "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Only the Lonely" and "Crying," died shortly before midnight Tuesday at Hendersonville Hospital, where he had been taken by ambulance, said Melanie Lamb, a snorkeler for the suburban Nashville hospital.
NASA REVEALS SPACECAFTA: NASA yesterday showed off a spacecraft resembling a giant insect that will be launched toward Venus when the space shuttle Atlantis makes its next flight. The probe, called Magellan, stood upright in a sterile “white room,” its solar panels spread like the wings of a butterfly, as reporters and photographers got a closeup look. Magellan is being groomed to be carried into space by Atlantis on its fourth flight, scheduled to begin April 29.
PALESTINIANS PLAN STRIKES: Palestinian leaders called for two days of strikes starting today in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to mark the first
anniversary of their uprising against Israeli rule. The conservative Hebrew daily Maariv said the army was increasing forces in the territories in anticipation of an escalation. In a day to comment on the report for security reasons.
ESTONIAN MADE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Estonia's legislature made Estonian the official language of the Baltic republic yesterday, but delayed action on a law that would force non-native students to learn it. Under the proposed law on which action was postponed until January, residents from other parts of Estonia were allowed to enroll in Estonia's official language of them including police, doctors and shop clerks — have lived in Estonia for years without doing so.
NICARAGUAN PILOT DEFECTS: A Nicaraguan pilot defected yesterday and flew a Soviet-made attack helicopter to a Honduran air base, diplomatic sources and Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government said. The diplomatic sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the military pilot landed the ML25 helicopter in Panama City. The government says it helps the Honduran Air Base. They said they could provide no further details. The Honduran government had no immediate announcement on the report.
MANDELA TRANSFERRED: South African Black leader Nelson Mandela was moved from a hospital to a private house on a prison farm outside Capetown, his lawyer said last night. The lawyer, Imais Ayob, said the 70-year-old Mandela had been transferred from the Constantiaburg Clinic to the Victor Verster Prison in Taarl, a suburb of Capetown.
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