Word: antiterrorist
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...pick up the trail on that occasion. But in August, in an unparalleled display of ineptness, the authorities allowed Stoll and his comrades to slip through their fingers. As an outraged Bundestag investigating committee revealed last week, the suspects had been virtually handed over to the federal crime police antiterrorist squad by an observant helicopter pilot in Michelstadt, Karin Rieger. She reported that the three fugitives, equipped with a camera and video-tape equipment, had chartered her chopper for several flights over the Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles. Rieger became suspicious when she noticed that the supposed "film...
...their aerial survey of potential targets, the terrorists blithely drove away, losing a police tail in the winding streets of Stettbach, a nearby village. "An incredible performance," snapped an aide in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's office. "The Chancellor is furious." In fact, Schmidt was reportedly ready to fire Antiterrorist Chief Gerhard Boeden because of the bungling...
...entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They then drove off in the car of a waiting accomplice. Meanwhile, the police have had little to say about the progress of the Moro case itself since the arrest last month...
...Christian Democrats and the Communists so skillfully worked out by Moro earlier this year. The day after the results were tallied, in fact, all the major parties gave the government an overwhelming vote of confidence (522 members in favor, 27 opposed, 3 abstentions) for its seven-week-old antiterrorist decree. The measure raises the penalty for a kidnaping-homicide to life imprisonment and gives Italy's police wider arrest and interrogation powers...
...most effective way to control terrorism is to cure the social conditions that inspire today's nihilism-such as unemployment (especially among the young) and a distant, insensitive bureaucratic government. Italian Sociologist Giovanni Statera argues that the alternative of "trying to shore up state institutions by passing repressive antiterrorist laws is like trying to cure a cancerous tumor with hot-water packs." Still, it remains to be seen whether efforts to eradicate economic injustice in a democratic manner would solve the present problem; it is not, after all, the have-nots who are taking to terrorism now. The militant...