A spokesman for the American Jewish Congress told the Republican Party platform committee today that the U.S. could stop air hijacking by suspending air service and curtailing economic and military assistance to any nation that encourages or condones terrorism in the skies.
Alvin Gray of Cleveland, co-chairman of the Governing Council of the AJCongress, urged the platform committee to draft a plank that would “serve notice that any country encouraging air hijackers by offering them haven or by falling to prosecute or extradite them would suffer serious penalty.”
Legislation is needed. Gray said, that would “direct the President to suspend air service to any country used as a base of operations or training or as a sanctuary for terrorists; any country that arms, aids or abets terrorist organizations; and any country that continues to maintain air traffic with an offending statement.”
Legislation is also needed, Gray said,”that would halt all U.S. economic and military assistance to any nation that encourages, protects, supplies or fails to act against organizations guilty of air terrorism.” He also urged the Republicans to support legislation “aimed at halting the secondary boycott, by which Arabs try to make American companies their instruments by boycotting Israel; and the tertiary boycott, by which Arabs try to make American firms boycott other American firms that deal with Israel or that have Jewish officers.”
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