International A13 The Plain Dealer Sunday, August 27, 2006 Stick of dynamite bares weak link in air security LESLIE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON A passenger's stick of dynamite on a flight from Argentina to Houston exposed a weak link in aviation security: International airports are not always as secure as those in the United States. U.S. and Argentine authorities were investigating how the explosive made it onto the airplane in a college student's checked bag. The dynamite was discovered during a baggage search in an inspection station at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after a Continental Airlines flight landed Friday. Officials said that terrorism was not involved and that the student said he works in mining and often handles explosives.
The head of the Transportation Security Administration said the government is aware of the potential problem posed by international airports and is taking steps to fix it. "We are focused on getting a base level of security around the world," Kip Hawley said in an interview scheduled to air today on C-SPAN. "We'll put in additional measures where we think we need to." Airline passengers traveling from U.S. and British airports are now barred from bringing onboard any liquids and gels after an alleged terrorist plot was broken up in Britain. Authorities said the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives to blow up as many as 10 U.S.bound airplanes simultaneously.
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Alltel Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. A13 WORLD From wire reports N'DJAMENA, CHAD Foreign oil firms told to get out Chad's president on Saturday ordered the oil companies Chevron Corp. and Petronas to leave the country, saying that neither has paid taxes and that his country will take responsibility for the oil fields they have overseen. In remarks on state radio, President Idriss Deby gave the companies part of the African country's oil production consortium that is led by Exxon Mobil a deadline of just 24 hours to start making plans to leave.
Deby said Chad, which is one of Africa's newest oil producers and is setting up a national oil company, would take over the oil fields that have been overseen by the American and Malaysian companies and account for some 60 percent of its oil production. A spokesman for Kuala Lumpurbased Petroliam Nasional Berhad, said he could not comment on Deby's announcement. Chevl ron said in a written statement that it had not been behind on any tax payments and had not been told it must leave Chad. Associated Press SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA N. Korea refuses to rule out A-test North Korea will not rule out a nuclear test as long as Washington is hostile toward Pyongyang, a newspaper linked to the communist nation said Saturday.
There are growing concerns, bolstered by reports of suspicious activity, that Pyongyang may be planning to follow up its recent missile launches with a nuclear test. Pyongyang claims to have nuclear weapons but hasn't performed any known test. "We can't say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nuclear test as part of strengthening its self-defense," said Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published in Japan by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang regime. China, the communist North's closest ally and key provider of oil, has agreed with South Korea to cooperate to prevent a possible North Korean nuclear test. Associated Press BERLIN Train evacuated over fake bomb Police evacuated 450 passengers from a German train after the discovery of a fake bomb, weeks after suitcase bombs failed to explode on two other trains.
A cleaner raised the alarm Friday after opening a bag left in the washroom of an intercity train in southern Germany, police said. The train, headed for Dortmund, was halted in Aschaffenburg station, where security forces evacuated the passengers and investigated the bag, police in nearby Wuerzburg said. Explosives specialists who examined the bag found a bottle containing a liquid hooked up to a realistic-looking detonator, police said. Associated Press TOKYO Restaurant chain to serve U.S. beef A Japanese restaurant chain plans to resume serving U.S.
beef soon at dozens of its branches nationwide, company officials said Saturday. It would be the first to do so since Tokyo eased an import ban over concerns about mad cow disease. Zenshoku, based in the western Osaka prefecture (state), said it will offer U.S. beef at its 57 Korean barbecue restaurants across Japan, but company spokeswoman Tae Okuda said no date has been set. Tokyo first banned U.S.
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