Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe AIRPORTS ALLOWING WEAPONS THROUGH CBS News and the New York Daily News both find airport screeners are allowing weapons through security checkpoints. Advertisement Earlier this year, a CBS test found 70 percent of screeners failed to check or even detect the film bags that appear totally black during machine screening and could hide weapons. CBS News went back to the same airports using the same kind of X-ray blocking film bags and, once again, 70 percent of the time, the film bags went undetected or unopened. In Los Angeles, screeners missed all of the film bags. In Baltimore, all the film bags were searched every time. The Daily News checked six major airlines at 11 airports on 14 flights and not one reporter carrying box cutters, razor knives or pepper spray was detected. -- Do these results make you reluctant to fly? -- Do you think making screeners -- many from the security companies previously used at airports -- federal employees will make a difference? EU SUPERPOWER? A majority of Europeans think U.S. foreign policy is partially to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the London Financial Times. Advertisement The survey finds 55 percent of respondents from six European countries agreed U.S. policy had contributed to the attacks. The poll also finds widespread public support within the United States for an invasion of Iraq, with 75 percent of American respondents in favor of using military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein and incite a regime change. But both European and American respondents are cautious about the United States entering Iraq alone, with 65 percent of Americans and 60 percent of Europeans urging the United States to gain allied support and approval from the United Nations. Only 10 percent of Europeans would support U.S. military action in Iraq without backing from the United Nations and allies. -- Should the United States care what Europeans think? -- If U.S. foreign policy is partially to blame for Sept. 11, what part in particular is the problem? HOW MUCH LONGER FOR DONAHUE? TV talk show legend Phil Donahue says he knows his ratings have to turn around soon if his comeback on MSNBC is going to last, the New York Daily News reports. "If we don't make noise in six months, it's going to be hard for me to tell my family that I was treated unfairly," he says. Advertisement Donahue's highly publicized 8 p.m. show is off to a sluggish start in its first six weeks, drawing about half the viewers tuning into CNN's new entry in the time period, "Connie Chung Tonight." Last week, his show averaged 365,000 viewers to Chung's 686,000, according to Nielsen Media Research. Both programs were supposed to make inroads in Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, which has about 2 million viewers during the same time slot. -- Is cable chasing too few viewers for current events programs? -- Would you watch either Chung or Donahue during a different time slot?
