Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe-wide May revolution of students in 1968; the Red Brigade terrorists seemed unable to accept its failure. A number of the 16 suspects wanted by Bonn for Schleyer's murder fit Ferracuti's profile. Christian Klar, for example, studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and once belonged to the Young Democrats, the youth branch of West Germany's relatively conservative Free Democrats. His father was archetypically middle class?a high-ranking school administrator and riding club president. It was at Heidelberg that young Klar's "overdrawn sense of social justice and idealism" (as his father...
...weapons and ammunition. Suitably armed, the German terrorists embarked on a killing and bombing spree. They vented their rage on "consumer capitalism" by placing bombs in Frankfurt department stores. They struck at the hated Ami (unflattering German slang for "American") by setting bombs in U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg and an officers' club in Frankfurt; they shocked German legal authorities with their cold-blooded killings of judges and police...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S OVERSEAS GRADUATE PROGRAM, HEIDELBERG...
...across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...
Texas-born Associate Editor David Tinnin, who wrote the accompanying piece on the increasing politicization of the Olympics, was the German collegiate champion in the 100-and 200-meter sprints (in 1950 and 1952) while attending the University of Heidelberg. He had Olympic visions but opted instead for Cambridge University in England, where, he says, "I couldn't work out in summer [because the] track was built around a cricket field where 'young men running [about] in shorts' were not welcome." Tinnin approaches his subject with expertise, having just finished a book, Hit Team, which begins with...