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MADRID -- A bomb planted by a terrorist organization exploded yesterday on the first floor of the U.S. Cultural Center in Madrid hours before Vice President Walter F. Mondale was scheduled to arrive to meet with Spanish leaders...
...Singen hospital last week, he was identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany and the assassinations of public officials...
...late recruit to the Baader-Meinhof revolutionary cause, Sonnenberg had previously been arrested for demonstrating in a courtroom against prison conditions for convicted terrorists. Becker was a professional revolutionary. First jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp...
Thomson modified his position the day after his terrorist speech and the day before the demonstration, when he agreed with the Public Service Company to allow a limited occupation. The Clams could occupy all of the site except a freshly fenced-in 40-acre compound in the center where all the buildings were...
From then until their capture in 1972, Baader and Meinhof led their terrorist gang, the "Red Army Faction," in a series of daring crimes across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...