史上今日：June 14
Mr Linstead released the strike notice1972: Pilots threaten worldwide strike
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Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations
after pilots threatened to strike over hijack fears.
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations (IFALPA) has
called a 24-hour stoppage and accused governments of failing to take action to
halt air piracy.
British Air Line Pilots Association spokesman (BALPA), Gordon Hurley, said
hijacking was on the increase, and striking was the "only effective way of
dealing with it".
"Until governments take the matter seriously and make airports secure and
stop this hijacking, this menace, this piracy, this is the only alternative we
have," he said.
Three basic demands
BALPA's vice chairman, Jack Linstead, said he was issuing a strike notice
reluctantly, but added that it was a reflection of the pilots' strength of
feeling on the issue.
The strike ballot had returned "a very clear mandate to take industrial
action," he said, adding that there was still time for the dispute to be
resolved.
IFALPA wants governments across the world to fulfil three basic
demands.
These are: to increase international airport security; to adopt the
International Civil Aviation Organisation's convention against air hijacking;
and to speed up the pace of ratification of other anti-hijacking
conventions.
German soldiers parade through the Place de la Concorde
1940: German troops enter Paris
Artificially 1969:
The German troops marched into Paris in the early hours of this morning as
French and allied forces retreated.
The enemy met no resistance as it entered the capital, which was declared
an open town yesterday by the city's French military governor, General
Hering.
French troops withdrew to avoid a violent battle and total destruction of
Paris. They are believed to have taken a new line of defence south of the
city.
The Germans advanced from the north-east and north-west and shortly
afterwards tanks rumbled past the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Elysees to the
Place de la Concorde.
Government retreats
All shops and businesses in Paris have been closed and shuttered and there
are unconfirmed reports the French government has now left Tours, in central
France, and gone further south to Bordeaux.
The enemy has been advancing toward Paris since they took Dunkirk ten days
ago, forcing a huge evacuation of the port, resulting in thousands of allied
deaths and casualties.
As the Germans approached, the French premier Paul Reynaud broadcast an
appeal for all free men to come to the aid of France.
British troops arrived south of Paris and began fighting, with their French
counterparts, day and night to stem the advance of the Germans.
The RAF has spent the past few days bombing German convoys, supply columns,
mechanised units and lines of communications.
All the bridges behind enemy lines from Rouen to Mantes have been destroyed
by the RAF to stop the enemy bringing up material and reserves.
German aircraft responded with air raids east of Paris and at Evreux and
Mantes, west of the capital.
Vocabulary:
stoppage: the act of stopping;a halt(中止;停工)
column: a formation, as of troops or vehicles, in which all elements follow
one behind the other(纵队)
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