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Show Page A12 Thursday, January 14, 1988 Park Record WItaa(M9ysi JmS " ' M&t am JEST m JBr Jt !ii?Mfr BY RICK BROUGII Airport security gets tight What does a criminal look like? For years, police have been trying to create "criminal profiles" so they can spot violators of the law. Imagine a system that could help you snatch everyone from would-be litterbugs to hockey-masked psychos about to open up on a suburban shopping mall! The latest triumph of this system has been the "drug courier profile" at the Salt Lake Airport. Or rather, let's say it is allegedly used. The American Civil Liberties Union in Salt Lake charges that the profile is being used to detain and search people at the airport. , This profile, used by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Ad-ministration, hasn't been disclosed. But the ACLU said the DEA has supposedly cited a number of tell-tale drug-runner drug-runner characteristics in past trials. The ACLU has listed what some of those are. For instance: in-stance: You can get in trouble if you're carrying little luggage. lug-gage. (No, not tiny suitcases. A small amount of luggage.) lug-gage.) On the other hand, you can get in trouble if you have luggage if it's American Tourister luggage. (Have the libel lawyers of the American Tourister company heard about this?) You're in trouble if you are the first person off the airplane. You're in trouble if you're the last person off the airplane. The other signs include : Wearing clothes you wore the day before. If you're bouncing a golf ball. If you appear to be a foreigner. If you appear nervous. (Maybe a passenger has reason to be nervous. Say he's the president of American Tourister, and he's nervous because his product has been identified with drug-dealing and sales are plummeting.) plum-meting.) I have had trouble understanding this, so I talked to DEA agent B. Barton "Bud" Borderline at the security gate of the Salt Lake Airport. When I found him, . Borderline was examining an airline passenger who was attempting to take a bazoka through the metal check. "What're you taking that pea-shooter for?" he asked. "I belong to a skeet-shooting club," said the passenger. "Did you pay for that with cash?" Borderline asked. "No. Visa!" "Okay, you're clean." Borderline explained to me that the "druggie" profile is based on careful logic. "For instance, if an airplane passenger is walking too fast through the terminal, that's an obvious tip that he's got something hot. If he's walking through the terminal too slowly, that's a clear indication that he's terrified of giving himself away and he's being overly careful." "So the thing to do is not to walk too fast or too slow." "No. If we see a person that, that shows us we've got an experienced drug-runner, who is so clever that he walks like a normal person. "That's not to say we grab everybody. There's a right way to exit the airport. For instance, look at that guy. He's not walking fast. He's not walking slow. He's not walking at a moderate speed." "That's right," I said. "He's floating three feet off the floor. Don't you think he might be under the control of some illicit substance?" "No," he said. "With all the Hare Krishnas around airports, air-ports, you get used to that sort of thing." Just then, a man with a beard and a fur hat rushed up to security check. He held a roll of papers in his hand marked TOOELE DEPOT, TOP SECRET. "I am allowed allow-ed on plane, da?" "Hold on," said Borderline, "you aren't a foreigner, are you?" "Oh, nyet, nyet," said the man, smiling nervously. "I just move to Magna." "Okay," he said. "Go on through." "Now another rule we have is to watch people driving around at 3 a.m. I ask you, why would a guy be driving around at that hour?" "Maybe he has a relative coming in on a flight at 2:45." "Nah. Planes don't land that early in the morning. They circle around on automatic pilot while the pilots sleep." Another passenger pulled up in front of us. He was pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with white powder. "This is baking soda," he said. . Boderline passed him through. "Finally, watch out for guys with a lot of cameras. Matter of fact, we searched and arrested two guys who were selling cameras around the airport. " - "Have they been identified?" "Yeah. James Garner and Michael Landon. Those names sound familiar, I bet they got records going back a mile." W- I I BYTERI GOMES A good book is like a prism.. When I finished my book last night it was with great sadness and I know for me, that is the sign of a good book. I wanted more. I wanted to stay on the same journey with the author, I wanted to keep silently acknowledging shared experiences and feelings of, "Ah yes," and "I know how that feels, exactly." The book, Teaching a Stone to Talk is series of essays by Pulitzer prize winner Annie Dillard. In the final essay she recounts a weekend spent in the woods in a cabin with her niece. She knows the child is doing the same thing she herself is doing and has done in the past she is trying to freeze moments of time into frozen frames to recall at some later date. It is called the "I-must-remember-this syndrome." No doubt, you too have experienced it. The crisp clear morning with the bright blue sky and white glistening powder snow and you tell yourself "I-must-remember-this," or more assuredly, "I-know- I'll-never-forget-this-moment." The birth of a child, the reflection in a pond, a sailboat ride into a summer sunset special memories you promise yourself you'll recall again and again. Alas, the best laid plans of mice and mortals... But when a really fine writer talks of watching a stick swirling down a river bank, just so, I can recall from my childhood a creek I poked with sticks just up from my house. And I compare how that creek differs from the river I sat next to this summer and watched a beaver play hide-and-seek with the shadows. And when I read about the writer's favorite tree climbed to steal some reading space and time, I recall the oak in my front yard I scraped both my knees on when I scrambled up with a book. Good writers not only create a new awarenesss, they touch on those things that stir memories and they strike universal cords that unite the reader to them. And I think most of all they encourage, through the magic of one's imagination, the ability to dream up other lives in other times and places. My son is currently reading Huck Finn in his junior English class. As I was finishing my book the other night in front of the fire, Randy came downstairs and pronounced pro-nounced he thought it would be "neat" to spend a summer sum-mer floating down some river like Huck had done. We talked a little about that sense of adventure and Twain's ability to make Huck and Jim and the widow so real, and at least in literature, so enviable. I asked Randy if a compromise of floating down the Snake River next summer as a family vacation would be a close second. He pointed out his sister Jenny is hardly Jim, but shooting rapids might be more thrilling than floating down the muddy Mississippi. Already I am thinking this should be one of those "remember forever" trips- after all, at Randy's advancing advan-cing age there may not be too many more family vacations vaca-tions all together. I closed my book finally and I saw the fire had been reduced to embers. The rest of the house was fast asleep and there was a hush that only mothers with sleeping children can appreciate fully. I stared at the book, and flipped through the pages, and it struck a vein with me the only respectable thing to do with a book like this one was to share it with a friend. Not all my friends have the same reading taste as I, and in fact, only Tina Lewis admits, ad-mits, as I do, to reading almost exclusively non-fiction. I came up with someone who I knew would take the book and read it like a prism, reflecting and refracting the words therein. Because although I have managed to find really good reads from time to time on my own, I must confess my favorite books have usually been given to me or recommended recom-mended to me, by a friend. The book really wouldn't be ending, I told myself, if I passed it along. And I felt a little less sad. A Q. AW JkX- .fVXTI If ANNOUNCING GRAND OPENING OF A TOTALLY NEW KIND OF FIGURE SALON... Where Great Results are No Sweat. Imagine losing inches and pounds without strenuous exercise, muscle strain or weird papaya juice diets. At The Perfect Way, seven different motorized tables do the hard work for you, toning and firming your muscles, while breaking down unwanted "Cellulite." YOUR FIRST SESSION IS FREE! The A Perfect Way Shape-up leaves you feeling refreshed and energized, not fatigued and out of breath. 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