Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder of Schleyer will unquestionably increase the tension inside West Germany. In Hamburg, West Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, security was increased around officials. In Bonn, concertinas of barbed wire encircle government buildings, sandbagged gun emplacements protect door ways and guards with submachine guns patrol the grounds. The limousines of government officials speed along city streets tailed by escort autos with automatic weapons poking out from windows. Top-level businessmen constantly vary their daily schedules (making it difficult for terrorists to set traps for them) and are accompanied everywhere by bodyguards. (That did not help Schleyer. His three bodyguards were killed...
...guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says Dr. Hans-Joseph Horchem, chief of the Hamburg division of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In the near future, he predicts a rash of explosions and arson and at least one attempt to assassinate a leading politician or judicial official...
...much-decorated R.A.F. air marshal, taught at Eton, then joined the Foreign Service, "always seeking the brand names, the Good Housekeeping certificate of professions." From 1961 to 1963, Cornwell served as Second Secretary in the British embassy in Bonn; for two years after that he was a consul in Hamburg. "Again," he says, "I was plunged into an institutional life; again I felt completely alienated from...
...Hamburg, West Germany...
BORN. To Michael DeBakey, 68, pioneer heart surgeon and president of the Baylor University College of Medicine, and Katrin DeBakey, 35, former actress from Hamburg, Germany; their first child, a girl; in Houston. Name: Olga-Katarina...