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...When the enemy is mad, keep still. When his fury has subsided, attack again." -Terrorist Siegfried Haag...
...extraordinary security precautions were in response to the kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore...
...issue of terrorism, and the government's response to it, has revealed deep divisions in German society. Conservatives rail against the country's university system as a hotbed of radicalism and a spawning ground for terrorist sympathizers. In defense, some professors last week publicly condemned the use of violence as a means of realizing political aims...
...abduction sent waves of anger and fear rippling through West Germany The brutal incident was the latest round in what many West Germans have begun calling a civil war between their government and a small army of nihilistic urban terrorists bent on disrupting public order. Since April, Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback has been gunned down on the streets of Karlsruhe and Banker Jürgen Ponto slain inside his estate near Frankfurt (TIME, Aug. 15). A report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous...
...after the abduction, the kidnapers made six demands in a letter that was anonymously left at a police station. It was signed Kommando Siegfried Hausner, R.A.F.-referring to a terrorist who lied after a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. The initials stand for the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl...