Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Year? I think West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt deserves it for the courage he showed during the nerve-shattering hijacking of that Lufthansa plane. His attitude taught some countries an exemplary lesson...
...romanticism and brutality. Jillian Becker, author of a flamboyant history of the radical Baader-Meinhof gang, calls the terrorists "Hitler's children." Others fear that their violence will coax fascism up from the rubble where it was buried 30 years ago. After the dramatic German rescue of hijacked Lufthansa passengers at Mogadishu two months ago, a Dutch diplomat's mind wandered back uneasily to the abyss: "You can't help getting the shivers at the precision with which the rescue operation was carried out. It was German military skill at work again...
...deadline arrived last week, West Germany's national airline responded with a policy of saturation security for its 411 daily scheduled flights worldwide. Fortunately, as the first tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news agencies in Paris, announced that "we will not hijack any more aircraft," but repeated the threat to "blow up" airplanes when "capitalist profiteers and lackeys" are aboard. "We will also hit them," the letter said, "in their homes...
...aboard. West German police meticulously inspected each item, Israeli-style, in every passenger's luggage. Major airports located near international waters, including New York's Kennedy and Boston's Logan, were asked to patrol for any suspicious-looking craft capable of firing rockets. In addition, Lufthansa jetcraft followed new flight patterns. In West Germany the planes were often given runway changes at the last minute...
...Lufthansa's passenger business itself took a dip early in the week, falling about 10% below normal in London, for example. But some passengers were determined to fly Lufthansa. Said an indignant Hamburg matron: "I won't give those terrorist dirt the satisfaction of having scared me away...