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indicated, “If the plane would have
approached Tel Aviv, it would
have been shot out of the sky.
You’ll remember what happened
when a Libyan airliner flew toward
(security emplacements in) Sinai.
So imagine what we would have
done if they would have flown
toward Tel Aviv.” He added that
an Egyptian Tupolov bomber ap
proached Tel Aviv during the Yom
Kippur War and was “shot out of
the air out to sea.”
While the intent of the terrorists
is important for Israeli security
The Jewish Labor Committee
reports that a resolution condemn
ing the Soviet Union for “consis
tently and deliberately not deliver
ing mail to certain of its citizens,
notably Soviet Jews and others
expressing a desire to emigrate,”
was passed by the American Postal
Workers Union AFL-CIO at its
recent convention in San Francisco.
The resolution charges the Soviets
with interfering with mail service,
in violation of human rights guar
antee contained in numerous inter
national agreements, including the
1975 Helsinki Final Act, to which
the USSR was a signatory. The
motion resolves “that the Ameri
can Postal Workers Union AFL-
CIO goes on record condemning
interference with mail service by
the Soviet Union or any other
country; such interference must
cease, and fundamental human
rights—including the right to re
ceive mail—must be respected with
out qualifications.” APWU repre
analysts, the willingness of terror
ists to by-pass boarding procedures
to stage a perimeter breach is of
even greater importance. Very few
airports El A1 uses have yet estab
lished perimeter integrity, or even
a secure airport personnel system.
Paris’s De Gaulle airport is bor
dered by trenches, and patrolled by
armored personnel carriers. And
the Frankfurt airport has long been
patrolled for terrorists wielding
shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
But access to London’s Heathrow,
and the airports at Vienna, Rome
and Athens are still woefully in
adequate.
sents more than 320,000 employees
of the U.S. Postal Service and is an
active member of Postal, Telegraph
and Telephone International, the
world body of communications
unions.
JLC President Herb Magidson
called the resolution significant on
two planes. “An important organi
zation—the largest postal union in
the world—has once again pub
licly protested the treatment of
Soviet Jewry. Furthermore, this
resolution has the potential to alle
viate the physical and spiritual iso
lation suffered by Soviet Jews,
brought about by their government’s
interception of mail.”
The Jewish Labor Committee is
comprised of Jewish trade union
ists, Labor Zionists, secular Yid-
dishists and other labor-oriented
activists in the American Jewish
community, and serves as a link
between the Jewish community and
the American labor movement.
Even mon* vulnerable perhaps
are the international airports in
America. Chicago’s O’Hara and
New York’s JFK have repeatedly
been the subject of mock terrorist
penetrations by television repor
ters driving onto the tarmac, or
masquerading as airplane service
personnel. With the advent of inter
national flights from such inland
airports as those in Atlanta and
Dallas, the security dimension only
multiplies. But American airport
security officials assert they are
unwilling to install a restricted
access to U.S. airports.
“What’s called for is armed
guards around the perimeter,”
argued Netanyahu. “This is what
we use in Israel (at Ben-Gurion
Airport) and it works.”
Turning to the synagogue mas
sacre in Istanbul, Netanyahu as
serted, “I don’t think it’s a coinci
dence that the Karachi and Istanbul
attacks occurred a day apart. None
of these terrorist attacks are separ
ate, they are all coordinated and
part of a pattern intended to sap
our world.”
Will Israel retaliate for the Is
tanbul atrocity, which included
setting bleeding Jewish bodies
aflame? “In this case, there is a spe
cial dimension, an attack on Jews,”
answered Netanyahu. “We will track
down those who committed this,
and when we do, we shall take spe
cial measures to strike at the per
petrators.”
Netanyahu’s statement was the
strongest Israeli reaction yet. Mak
ing clear that Israel would “pick
the time and place,” Netanyahu
declared, “The idea that wild beasts
roam our waterways, our airports,
our railways, our capitals and
houses of worship and can get
away scot free with murder is in
tolerable.”
Postal union protests
Soviet mail interference
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