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...desire rather than the 'obscure object" that brings it about. There are many other rude jokes as well, all designed to pull the rug out from under civilization as we know it. Buñuel casts a dwarf as a professor of psychology and dreams up a clerical terrorist group called the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. When the two Conchitas implore Mathieu to respect their virginity, they are sometimes dressed in racy undergarments that even Frederick's of Hollywood might consider too much...
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...
...another front, France last week agreed to Bonn's request for the extradition of Radical Lawyer Klaus Croissant, 47. The West Germans had previously charged him with aiding the illegal activities of his terrorist clients, including Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. Croissant fled to France last July, seeking political asylum; there his cause was championed by French leftists. But after lengthy hearings, a Paris appeals court ruled there was enough evidence against Croissant to warrant extradition...
Although the French demonstrators called members of the appeals court "Nazis," the judges actually issued a softening verdict. They ruled that Croissant could be extradited for trial on the charge of transmitting criminal correspondence between his clients and terrorist compatriots on the outside, but not on other charges that he propagandized for his clients and helped them hide from police. Under a 1953 treaty with France, West German prosecutors are bound to honor the judges' limitations...
...week's end the West German government received another embarrassing shock. Ingrid Schubert, 32, one of eleven jailed terrorists whose release had been demanded by Schleyer's kidnapers, was found dead in her Munich prison cell. She had apparently hanged herself. Schubert was the fourth terrorist to die in West German custody within the past month...