European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 27, 1986 the stars and stripes if Page 17 probe into family backgrounds seeking clues to false identities. Selected passengers Are directed to open their baggage and guards then sort through clothes and personal effects checking the contents of boxes and bottles and even feeling their Way along trouser pleats. Al Al also uses a system of color coded stickers to identify passenger Luggage. Other carriers now also make computer records of passengers and their Luggage to ensure that the plane does not carry the Luggage unless the passenger turns up in his or her assigned seat. Alternatively other carriers require passengers to Point out their bags for loading onto the aircraft just before boarding. The tighter baggage controls Means that Luggage inadvertently left behind is often no longer routinely put aboard the next flight but rather is investigated first. Screening of passengers and their hand baggage has also been improved officials say. A traveler who was leaving Fiumicini Airport recently had to make three passes through the Metal Detector each time shedding keys and coins before the activation of the device could be traced to the clip on a plastic Ball Point pen in his pocket. In the past according to american officials operators of Metal detectors who became annoyed at repeated activations sometimes re adjusted the sensitivity of the devices so they would not Register Small items. But this practice the officials say has now been largely overcome by Locking the controls. The a Ray operators Are also now commonly grouped into teams allowing for rest periods after 20 minutes on duty As recommended by the Faa. One of the things Security experts do from time to time to test the system is to try to sneak a pistol encased in a Block of plastic through the Metal detectors and a Ray machines. They also use a Metal measuring device to test the sensitivity of detectors. Officials would not say How often the test items get through undetected but they maintained that the Security record was excellent. And contrary to popular reports one american official said a largely plastic pistol now produced for the austrian army does in fact show up quite nicely on the a Ray monitors. He acknowledged however that the monitors did not Register other new non Metal explosive devices. Airport employees including members of the cleaning staffs Are also being More closely scrutinized officials say. We know their mothers and their fathers and the number of Teeth they have said Kostas d. Tsimas Greece s Secretary general of Public order the top Security official. According to Tsimas concern has recently shifted toward suicide attacks. We have to change our approach he said. Searches of women passengers even by Security officers who Are women sometimes collide with cultural sensitivities in some places and As a result women Are sometimes searched Only cursorily officials say. Meanwhile some american officials complained about a Rule that requires . Foreign service personnel to Fly on american carriers whenever possible although some exceptions have been made on Security grounds. In any Case diplomats and Airport officials agreed that fear of terrorism was Likely to overshadow International travel for a Long time to come. There s no Choice we have to live with it said an israeli Diplomat in Europe who has Long been resigned to hermetic Security precautions. A different kind of War by Charles j. Hanley associated press w Hen Pearl Harbor was attacked the american Road Back to Victory was Clear it was the Road to Berlin and  s is a different kind of War the enemy is everywhere the Way Forward Uncertain. Some say the terrorists Are winning. The West is disunited Washington chose to strike militarily at Libya while the europeans counselled restraint and behind the scenes efforts. The West is vulnerable american tourism to Europe has been reeling As far Flung americans Are pulling Back from danger zones. The terrorists Are on the offensive one tried to blow an israeli jetliner out of the sky last week and others cold blood edly murdered an american and three British hostages in Lebanon. In recent interviews in the United states Europe and the Middle East Security officials academic analysts and other anti terrorist specialists stressed that two generations after its greatest conventional War an unprepared world has entered an Era of the unconventional. On one level they talk about nuclear parity ss-20 missiles it Cetera said Joel Lisker a Security policy specialist on the . Senate staff. But the War is ongoing and he dropped his hand toward the floor it is being fought Down  in the nuclear age terrorism is the poor Man s weapon. He does t need billion Dollar budgets to attack a superpower. Jet travel open Borders compact but powerful weapons and instantaneous communications give him the kind of reach once enjoyed Only by Imperial navies. The trend is unmistakable in the past 10 years the number of incidents of International terrorism has doubled to More than 800 last year the state department reports. And americans Are the target 25 percent of the time. Why the United states the analysts list Many reasons it is a Rich capitalist Power resented by Many of the world s poor. It is a dominating alien presence in latin America and elsewhere. Its Money sponsors Israel. Its battleship shelled Lebanon. Now its bombers have struck Libya. To the terrorist the United states is a worthy target because it is powerful he believes it can influence events in his backyard. And americans Are easy to reach targets at least 2.3 million of them reside outside their Homeland. Their real goal is to expel America from the world president Reagan said last year. They Are succeeding. Americans have fled Iran Libya Lebanon. And last week they fled Libya s neighbor Sudan in a . Embassy Airlift. American tourists Are staying Home. At least 30 percent fewer will visit Europe this year travel authorities estimate. The Impact on other businesses the contracts not signed the calling Home of executives is incalculable. Above All terrorism succeeds by keeping the terrorists cause in the spotlight. Hijackings gave us a Chance to Shock people into realizing that the palestinian people s rights were not being recognized explained Yakoub Dawani spokesman for the popular front for the liberation of Palestine in an interview in Damascus Syria. The pulp no longer hijacks planes but other groups other causes do. Terrorism has also succeeded in straining the Western Alliance. When Reagan sent Jet bombers against Moa mar khad Afy s Libya because it allegedly supported terrorism most . Allies dissented. French Premier Jacques Chirac called it a reprisal which itself lengthens the Chain of  analysts agree that air Force bombs Are unlikely to Stop terrorism. Israel s 20-year policy of retaliation has not done it. On the contrary ill considered counterattack can increase the terrorists resolve and swell their Reservoir of potential recruits said Brian m. Jenkins of the Rand corp. Think  but the . Military strike May have been aimed As much at the West europeans As at Libya. We very much Hope it will not be necessary again defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the allies afterwards. His message they should join in . Economic sanctions against Libya or further attacks on Libya Are possible. Publicly the europeans dismiss sanctions As ineffective. Privately they acknowledge that their economic interests in Libya also stay their hand. But the europeans also fear that the Distant . Administration might touch off a widening military or economic War in their backyard and they resent . Pressure. Many analysts say too that Washington makes a mistake in focusing on Libya. Jenkins explains it with simple arithmetic ". Intelligence analysts figure 25 percent of terrorist incidents Are state sponsored. That includes Libya Iran Syria and others. If Libya did not exist they d go elsewhere. We might get a 2 or 3 percent decline. But terrorist incidents Are increasing 10 to 15 percent a year so your 2-3 percent gain is lost in the  to Yitzhak Rabin Israel s defense minister state sponsorship is the problem. But attacking it is difficult. You would have to go to All out War with such. Countries he said in a Tel Aviv interview which. Means terrorism cannot be  what can be done the experts emphasize the need for stronger Security measures steady pressure on alleged state sponsors greater International efforts at defining and proscribing terrorist crimes better International cooperation in prosecuting terrorists. But one item Root causes often tops the list. You must Analyse the reasons for International terrorism said Ferdinando Imposimato an investigating judge who is one of Italy s top anti terrorist fighters. You must try to resolve the problems that Are the True causes. We must try to find a solution of the Middle East