FIGHTING TERROR IN THE SKY

The following are among the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism. SECURITY MEASURES

The FAA must develop stronger security for checked baggage, persons with access to aircraft and screening of passengers.

The FAA administrator should establish an office of security reporting directly to administrator.

The FAA should defer any program of purchasing new passenger screening equipment until it is sensitive enough to detect very small amounts of plastic explosives. DEALING WITH TERRORISTS

The United States should ensure that all government resources are prepared for active measures--preemptive or retaliatory, direct or covert--against targets in countries engaged in state-sponsored terrorism.

The United States must refuse to allow terrorist attacks to alter U.S. political and economic policies. TREATMENT OF VICTIMS’ FAMILIES

The State Department should always contact victims’ families, even when airline already has announced deaths.

The State Department should, whenever possible, assign to each family one person and an alternate to act as liaison.

The President should seek legislation authorizing and permanently appropriating funds to provide monetary benefits and tax relief for any American victim of a terrorist act.