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...blast wounded 20 people. "I don't know who is responsible, but I do know there is a group that said they had declared war on us," said General Kroesen. "I'm beginning to believe it." Specifically, the general was referring to the Red Army Faction, the terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhoff, which flourished in the 1970s. Confirmation came the next day when the Frankfurt Rundschau, a left-of-center daily, received a three-page type written letter explaining in turgid jargon that Kroesen had been attacked "because...
...Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government, the upsurge of a terrorist campaign directed against his nation's major ally was a diplomatic as well as a security danger. "These acts of violence are not only attacks against our American allies," said a government statement, "but just as much against our own security and freedom." At stake, it continued, was "the political value and reputation of the Federal Republic...
...linked to the huge anti-American demonstration two days earlier in West Berlin that protested the visit of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "The growth of anti-American rhetoric here is an irreversible invitation to further action of this kind," commented the prestigious Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, which predicted that terrorist acts would continue. Indeed, one day after Kroesen's escape, two explosive devices were found on a rail spur leading to the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt. Said a police officer: "They would have blown up a train if it had passed...
...P.L.O.-National Movement command immediately blamed Israel for the terrorist attack, describing it as "part of the Zionist enemy's policy of continuing genocide against our Lebanese and Palestinian people." The Israelis made no public reply but privately indicated that they had had nothing to do with the bombing. A shadowy group called the Front for Liberating Lebanon from Foreigners claimed that it had engineered the assault. The group took responsibility for a second bombing that occurred almost simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O...
...spend your summer? It almost seemed, reading the bulletins, that terrorists of every persuasion around the globe could answer: Building bombs. The assassination bomb in Iran was but one in a worldwide flurry of terrorist attacks in the past fortnight directed at targets as diverse-and often as senseless-as the fanaticisms that triggered them. A bombing Baedeker...