Ex-Hostage Wants Sky Marshals

WASHINGTON — The United States should put armed sky marshals aboard international flights again to cut down the chances of hijackings, one of the former hostages from a TWA hijacking in the Mideast told a group of senators today.

Peter Hill of Hoffman Estates, Ill., was one of the Americans aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was hijacked last June and taken to Beirut. Hill said at a hearing of the newly formed Senate anti-terrorism caucus that “there were many, many opportunities in the first two hours of the TWA hijacking when it could have been aborted” by sky marshals.