Dunno, travel was different then. Just a few years earlier, post Pan Am Lockerbie, I was embarking on moving over to the US for a year. My bags were searched before check in. The Agents questioned the heal of a walking boot they felt in my rucksack, because they thought it was a box. But they were completely cool about me taking into the cabin my two ice Axes (I was a keen hillwalker then). Before 9/11 "small knives" with a blade less than 4" were permitted under FAA rules. Some airlines had restrictions on "boxcutters" if they were discovered during random checks. However there is obvious ambiguity; no Stanley Knife I ever had would have a blade that extended more than 1" or so. That's the whole point of them. A Stanley Knife is generally loaded with little blades in the case, which all fall out in an oily mess when you attempt to refit a new blade. "Box cutters" are a bit different, and generally less familiar to non-Americans. These also have blades that only extend out a little bit. But when they blunt, you snap off a section to allow the next bit to extend out of the handle assembly. I'm not sure how "Riclag could answer your question, and why you keep pestering him/her on this. How would she/he know? It seems that you are trying to victimise an elderly man/woman.
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