European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine expression of terror shortly after an explosion killed three people june 19 in departure Hall b at Frankfurt making airports secure a photo by Constance Rosenblum new York times Airport Security varies widely around the but a review of procedures shows that in general those practice in developing countries tend to be lax while those in North America and the communist bloc tend to be in the review the major airports usually follow a High Standard of a notable exception is where hijackers seized a Twa some of whose passengers were being held hostage in the review was conducted by correspondents for the new York times and supplemented by interviews with state department officials and representatives of the International air transport association and the International federation of airline pilots officials of the Federal aviation administration and the Central intelligence Agency declined to be inter in arriving at an assessment of what is and is not a Safe the experts stressed that the Quality of the equipment in use is not always the determining equally they Are the training and attentiveness of the personnel and the efficiency with which they conduct Security checks and use such things As Hijacker profiles to recognize Security referring often to they also emphasized the importance of Airport particularly the Way Pas sengers Are routed through a building and How tightly Access to airstrips is the review showed that safety procedures lagged in much of latin particularly Rio de Mexico and As Well As in parts of Africa and the Middle among airports receiving High Marks for safety were those in Tel London and most of Western airports in the United states and Canada Are also considered highly an apparent explosion downed an air India jumbo Jet out of Toronto Southwest of the Irish killing All 329 people the same an explosion shattered Luggage in Tokyo Narita Airport that had been taken of a Canadian Pacific airlines flight from some of the most rigorous Airport Security is in the soviet Vietnam and Security was also described As High in and Kuala but the emphasis was seen As focusing on preventing drug smuggling rather than in the Middle Beirut is considered a major and persistent trouble and Cairo and Are regarded As unusually stringent in in representatives from the pilots and air lines organizations agreed with the findings of the re particularly the assessment of Beirut and there Are a very Small handful of perhaps continued on Page 14 at flights june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13