Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lufthansa flies-with saturation security and zigzag landings
...each murdered comrade we will blow up one Lufthansa plane in flight ... All should know that, beginning Nov. 15, death flies with them on a German plane...
...kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia (TIME cover...
Throughout the week West German police pressed their search for 16 terrorists wanted in connection with the Lufthansa skyjacking and Schleyer's kidnap-murder. Across the border French police were combing the area around Mulhouse-including the surviving concrete bunkers of World War II's Maginot Line, which would make excellent hiding places in the dense forests of Alsace...
...Germany, it seemed, was undergoing a security check. The government even sent its own security guards to 13 foreign airports that it regards as sloppily run -starting with Palma, Majorca, where the four hijackers had boarded the Lufthansa flight two weeks earlier. Bonn told Madrid flatly that unless the Germans were allowed to handle their own security, they would cancel all flights between Majorca and West Germany. Anxious to avoid such a blow to its tourist industry, the Spanish government reluctantly agreed...