GATES OF HELL
A former Senator from my home State, South Dakota, and candidate for President in 1972 when America elected a crook when we could have had a dedicated public servant, learns the lessons of fear and stupidity at our Nations airports.
Flying the Unfriendly Skies
I ran for president once. Now I can't make it past airport security.
BY GEORGE MCGOVERN
Monday, July 29, 2002 12:01 a.m. EDT
When I go to an airport these days I don't worry about a terrorist bomb. I've been flying steadily and unsteadily for 60 years, beginning with my days as a bomber pilot in World War II. I've always known that a bomb in somebody's suitcase could blow up the plane I was on, just as I knew every day in 1943-45 could be my last. No one can ever take all the risk out of flying. On the wrong day you can even be hit by a drunken driver going to or from the airport.
