Daniel P. Moynihan, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, called on the U.S. government today to boycott airports of countries like Uganda, which assist and collaborate with terrorists.
Addressing a press conference at the Biltmore Hotel here, Moynihan, who returned from a four-day visit to Israel last night, said that the U.S. should join West Germany in its plan to adopt measures against international terrorism in the upcoming UN General Assembly in September. Citing the fact that the U.S. Japan and West Germany carry about 80 percent of the world air traffic, Moynihan said that a concerted effort by those three nations to combat terrorism can be effective.
Moynihan had high words of praise for the alleged role Kenya played in the rescue operation by Israel at Entebbe Airport. He said Kenya’s assistance in the Israeli raid was a “role of international decency.”
JUSTIFIED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW
Before he left Israel, Moynihan, speaking with reporters at Ben Gurion Airport, said the Israeli rescue operation in Uganda was justified by international law. Moynihan, who received an honorary Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University during his visit in Jerusalem said international law legitimizes “hot pursuit,” just as American law enforcement officers used this legal reasoning in prohibition days, when federal agents pursued bootleggers across the Canadian and Mexican borders.
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