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Panel makes air safety proposal
WASHINGTON (AP) —Tighter airport secu
rity, including profiles to single out passengers
who may pose a threat, was recommended
Wednesday by a White House commission
formed after the TWA Flight 800 disaster.
The commission urged that by the end of
the year, airports implement a combination of
passenger profiling, explosive-detecting
equipment and bag matching to reduce the
chances of a bomb being brought aboard an
airliner. Bag matching is a system that makes
sure luggage doesn’t stay on the plane if the
passenger who checked it isn’t aboard.
A variety of federal agencies, airlines and
airport authorities will be responsible for act
ing on more than 50 proposals included in the
final report, which was deliv
ered to President Clinton at the
White House.
The Federal Aviation Admin
istration said it “will move quick
ly to implement the recommen
dations” of the White House
Commission on Aviation Safety
and Security.
“The world is changing and
so must our aviation policies
and practices,” Vice President
A1 Gore said at the commis
sion’s final meeting.
allowing Customs agents to inspect airmail as
it leaves the country as well as incoming mail.
Commission member Kathleen Flynn, who
lost a child in the explosion of Pan Am Flight
103, said: “We have got to do passenger bag-
gagematch, we have got to do passenger profil
ing, we have got to do explosives detection... in
a comprehensive program.”
“We cannot allow terrorists to intimidate a
free society,” added commission member
George W. Williams.
Under the commission plan, bag matching
would be done for the luggage of any passenger
who fits the danger profile, as well as randomly
on other passengers, explained commission
member Brian Michael Jenkins.
“This has been a con
tentious area,” he admitted.
“Our objective is keeping
bombs off airplanes.”
While bag-matching
wouldn’t be done for all
luggage immediately,
Gore said that is the even
tual objective.
The plan drew a quick
complaint from the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union.
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tools of modem science” to make air travel safer.
He urged Congress to approve the $100 million in
added annual spending for air security recom
mended by the commission.
While the Flight 800 explosion last July, which
killed 230 people, prompted formation of the
commission, the report was wide-ranging and
did not specifically address that disaster. That
crash remains unsolved with investigators con
sidering as possible causes a bomb, mechanical
failure or a missile.
Among the commission’s proposals are im
proving the government’s inspection program
for older airplanes; forming a panel to study
whether antimissile technology should be in
stalled on airliners; installating improved
ground proximity warning systems to help pi
lots avoid mountainside crashes; requiring that
safety seats be used for infants on aircraft, in
stead of letting them ride on parents’ laps; and
system is invasive of privacy and likely to be dis
criminatory,” said counsel Gregory Nojeim.
Nojeim contended only full bag matching
can prevent a terrorist from checking a bag
with a bomb in it and then not boarding the
plane. “The airlines have prevailed on this
commission not to go to full luggage match be
cause they don’t want to pay for it,” he said.
The Air Transport Association, tlie trade
group for the major airlines, said “the coupling
of profiling and bag match appears to be a pru
dent” proposal.
“An effective security system is multifaceted
— made up of many layers that, when taken to
gether, offer a blanket of security to the aviation
system,” said ATA president Carol Hallett.
The commission plan calls for the FBI, CIA
and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
to research known terrorists, hijackers and
bombers to develop the profiles. These would
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CNN and Associated Press plan outlets in Hava
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
move it said would focus more at
tention on the shortcomings of
Communist Cuba, the Clinton ad
ministration gave the go-ahead
Wednesday for 10 U.S. news orga
nizations to open bureaus in Cuba.
Of the 10, only CNN has permission
from the Cuban government.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry
said the other media applications,
including one from The Associat
ed Press, would be reviewed.
The administration acted after
influential conservatives, includ
ing Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-
N.C., said they would have no
objection to the presence of U.S.
news bureaus in Havana.
No U.S. news outlet has had a per
manent bureau in Cuba since the AP
was expelled from the island in 1969.
White House spokesman Mike
McCurry said the administration
action was in keeping with a poli
cy dating back to October 1995
“supporting an increased flow of
accurate information to and from
and within Cuba itself.”
He said the administration be
lieves reporting by U.S. news or
ganizations “will keep interna
tional attention focused on the
situation in Cuba and on the real
ities of economic and political
conditions thereA'M lOBrn / ;
“It also will bring greater public
exposure to those who are advo
cating a democratic change in
Cuba,” he said.
A Cuban Foreign Ministry official
in Havana, contacted by telephone,
said that CNN was the only U.S.
news organization authorized by
the Cubans.
“We will con
tinue analyzing
the rest of the ap
plications” and
will make deci
sions “when the
Cuban govern
ment considers
it opportune,”
said the official.
Cuba approved
CNN’s applica
tion last August.
Several for
eign news out
lets, including
British and
French
“Our year-round
Havana reporting
will enable CNN
viewers to be more
informed about
developments in
Cuba.”
CNN
news
agencies, have been allowed by the
Cuban government to set up per
manent bureaus.
But Cuba frequently has grant
ed American reporters visas —
usually lasting about a week — for
travel to the Caribbean island.
Cuban officials have said that 90
percent of visa applications from
American reporters have been ap
proved oyer the years.
Besides CNN and the AP, U.S.
government permission to open
bureaus was extended to ABC,
CBS, Univision, The Miami Herald,
Dow Jones News Services, tlie
Chicago Tribune, die Sun-Sentinel
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the
School for Ad
vanced Interna
tional Studies at
Johns Hopkins
University, which
publishes a Cuba
news letter.
CNN News
Group President
Tom Johnson said
that he was
pleased by the ad
ministration deci
sion, and that the
network’s Havana
bureau would
open in March.
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viewers to be more informed about
developments in Cuba,” Johnson
said. Veteran CNN Latin America
correspondent Lucia Newman was
named Havana bureau chief.
Louis D. Boccardi, AP president
and chief executive officer, said:
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could hasten the demise
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based in Miami, said it had :
jectipns to a permanent
presence in Cuba.
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news outlets being permitl
crate in tlie United States,
said that would beconditiot
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to operate freely in Cuba.
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