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From: hijab@cad.BERKELEY.EDU (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.politics.terror,net.followup
Subject: Re: Rambomania - or some Americans talk BIG but act small
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 12:54:34 EDT
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In article <321@mhuhk.UUCP>, jleb@mhuhk.UUCP (LEBOWITZ) writes:
> Having just returned from France I must say I did not feel confident
> in the security measures taken to thwart terrorism.  Not once while
> entering or leaving Geneva airport, crossing into France,etc...
> was my passport even more than glanced at.  A few sub-machine guns were 
> seen being sported by some black leather jacketed police but that
> is it.

Have you checked into how someone with a darker skin, *Arab* or
*Middle Eastern* looking, is treated by those same black leather
jacketed police? Security forces automatically assume that fair-
skinned, *European-looking* individuals are clean, and that people
like myself, with the further calamitous identification *Palestinian*,
are terrorists until proven otherwise. This is not only the case
in Europe, but at major U.S. international airports (JFK,LAX) as well.