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January 19, 2002
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Contents:
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U.S. Agency to Say Air Crews
Should Resist Hijackers
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Screeners sue over citizenship
law
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New Security Agency Has Daunting
Task
U.S. Agency
to Say Air Crews Should Resist Hijackers
Guidelines to Set Training
Standards
By Greg Schneider Washington
Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 18, 2002;
Page A19
The government today is scheduled
to issue plans for airline flight crews to aggressively defend their planes
and guidelines for creating a new breed of airport baggage screeners who
can be nice to safe passengers, tough with suspicious ones and smart enough
to know the difference.
Under the new guidelines,
airlines will have to train pilots and flight attendants to quickly assess
threatening situations and deal with them immediately. That will
mean some form of self-defense training for flight crew members -- not
martial arts, but techniques for "evasion and separation in a confined
space," said Patricia A. Friend, president of the Association of Flight
Attendants, who worked with the FAA to devise the new guidelines and appeared
with Garvey at a news conference.
Read More... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64751-2002Jan17.html
2002 The Washington Post
Company
Screeners
sue over citizenship law
New law requires airport
screeners to be U.S. citizens
ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES,
Jan. 17 The new federal law
requiring airport screeners to be U.S. citizens is unconstitutional
and discriminatory, a lawsuit filed Thursday charges. Nine screeners
who could lose their jobs sued Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta
and John Magaw, the undersecretary of transportation for security, in federal
court.
The citizenship requirements
will be felt keenly at San Francisco airport, where about 80 percent of
its 800 screeners are not citizens, said Andrew McDonald, spokesman for
the Service Employees International Union.
At Los Angeles International
Airport, an estimated 40 percent of the 1,000 screeners are non-citizens
2002 Associated Press.
New Security
Agency Has Daunting Task
Experts on Loan Work
to Meet Deadlines
By Greg Schneider Washington
Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 16,
2002; Page A11
Behind the scenes, "go-teams"
of experts and consultants working to create the new Transportation Security
Administration have already moved on to dozens of other topics. How
do you evaluate a baggage screener? How do you spot a terrorist?
Their task is unique and
daunting: to build the biggest new government agency since World War II
while keeping millions of traveling Americans safe. They will have
to hire 28,000 baggage screeners and thousands more air marshals, airport
law enforcement officers and security managers.
Read More...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51512-2002Jan15.html
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