An airline pilots’ walk-out like the 24-hour suspension of service last June 19 is looming on the horizon. Some 46,000 members of the Air Line Pilots Association received forms in the mail asking if they would support suspension or other steps to protest the threat of hijacking. The new action would be directed against nations that harbor hijackers and extortionists and against government inaction on the hijacking threat.
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