Security precautions at London airports have been tightened following warnings by West Germany that Arab terrorists were planning to attempt additional airline hijackings. The security chief of the various airlines were scheduled to meet today at the headquarters here of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) to discuss steps against such attempts. West German airports were alerted yesterday to terrorist threats to attack German planes because of Bonn’s ties with Israel. (In Beirut, Lebanon, today, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which engineered four hijackings last September, denied that the PFLP has sent men to Europe on hijacking or sabotage missions. In Bonn, however, Western airline companies have received leaflets from the PFLP warning them that next time the guerrillas will use gas released from whiskey bottles to foil attempts to subdue them. In addition, it is learned, the West German police are aware of the presence in their country of four Arab guerrillas and have forwarded their passport numbers to London.)
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