Reply #80: These are from Nexis/Lexis about airport security, 3 reports [View All]

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Copyright 2001 The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)

October 30, 2001 Tuesday, Home Final Edition

SECTION: EDITORIAL & COMMENT; Letters To The Editor; Pg. 06A

LENGTH: 199 words

HEADLINE: DON'T BLAME CLINTON FOR THE SEPT. 11 ATTACKS

BODY:
In response to retired Marine Col. Peter G. Paraskos' Oct. 21 letter, which blamed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on former President Clinton, I pose the following questions:

Is it possible that the terrorists saw a long-sought opening when President Bush took no action on the bipartisan Commission Report on Terrorism, submitted to him last February after three years in the making?

Also, this administration did nothing with former Vice President Al Gore's report on the airport security until after the horses left the barn. Bush was too preoccupied with Star Wars II, protecting us from a remote possibility of a rogue nation's missile attack, to notice imminent dangers.

Is it possible that our enemies saw a sign of weakness when Bush's unilateralism led us to withdraw our foreign commitments to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian accord and so on?


Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company: Abstracts
Information Bank Abstracts
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

February 13, 1997, Thursday

SECTION: Section A; Page 1, Column 2

LENGTH: 39 words

HEADLINE: WHITE HOUSE PANEL UNVEILS AIRLINE SAFETY PACKAGE

BYLINE: BY MICHELE KAYAL and ANDREW BLUM

JOURNAL-CODE: JCM

ABSTRACT:

White House commission headed by Vice Pres Al Gore outlines more than 50 new aviation safety and security measures expected to cost airlines millions of dollars and to change the way carriers and shippers move cargo and mail (M)

LOAD-DATE: February 26, 1997


Copyright 1997 Denver Publishing Company
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)

February 13, 1997, Thursday

SECTION: NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL; Ed. F; Pg. 34A

LENGTH: 327 words

HEADLINE: Clinton endorses rules on air safety, security
Passenger profiles spur controversy over rights

BYLINE: Nancy Mathis; Houston Chronicle

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

BODY:
President Clinton on Wednesday embraced dozens of recommendations to cut aviation accidents and boost airport security, including creation of passenger profiles to catch terrorists.

The recommendations were contained in a report from Vice President Al Gore, who chaired a 20-member commission created after TWA Flight 800 crashed mysteriously into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island last year, killing 230 people.

''The recommendations in this report are strong, and we will put them into action,'' Clinton said. ''We will use all the tools of modern science to make flying as safe as possible.''

Federal agencies, airports and airlines will be responsible for acting on the suggestions in the commission's final report.

(continued)
The White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security made 53 recommendations in the areas of security, safety and air traffic control.
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Here is the bottom line, the big bad Republicans dropped the ball, these measures are to intrusive they said.