20,000 On List -- 10-Percent Say They Shouldn't Be There
About 30 times every day, airlines across America stop and
question people whose names are similar to those on the TSA's Do
Not Fly List. But, according to an internal TSA memo, none of them
was actually a terror suspect.
"They Haven't Provided Grounds For Terminating The
Agreement"
You can't do that. So says the European Union in response to the
Bush administration's plans to pull out of a 1992 agreement on
government subsidies to companies like Boeing and Airbus. The US
announced its withdrawal from the accord last week, fueling the
growing dispute between the world's two biggest trading
partners.
The ICAO says it's just unacceptable for countries to continue
putting millions of air passengers at risk by neglecting or
ignoring altogether safety standards. So the UN agency is going to
start talking about which countries are guilty of what
violations.
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