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Security experts agree and have warned Schmidt to expect what they call a "spontaneous reaction for the freedom of other jailed terrorists." Even though the Baader-Meinhof gang has been largely destroyed, an estimated 120 hard-core terrorists remain at large in Germany; many of them claim affiliation with the Red Army Faction, the country's most dangerous guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says...
...their use of often indiscriminate behavior is, they are, undeniably, heroes to some. That may be understandable?though scarcely excusable?in the case of revolutionaries who claim to represent the aspirations of persecuted or neglected minorities. But many West Germans are furious that leftist papers in Europe have glamorized Baader and other gangsters of the Red Army Faction as selfless radicals acting on behalf of an ideological cause...
...ultimatum to the West German government and a second to the Paris mass-circulation daily France-Soir. In the messages, the group boasted of its ties to the skyjackers and set out its demands. Among them: the release from West German prisons of eleven convicted urban guerrillas (including Andreas Baader, co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang); the freeing of two Palestinian guerrillas from Turkish jails; the transporting of the prisoners to Viet Nam, Somalia or South Yemen; and the payment of $15 million in ransom as well as $43,000 for each of the eleven guerrillas...
Despite secret contacts between the government and the terrorists through an intermediary, Swiss Lawyer Denis Payot, fear grew that Schleyer's chance of survival was slim. The terrorists had demanded that eleven jailed terrorists, including the leaders of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen, be given safe passage to a country of their choice, either Libya or South Yemen. In letters to West German newspapers, TV and radio stations, Schleyer's kidnapers threatened that unless their demands were met he would be shot...
...federal authorities had not yet identified the kidnapers by name. But as admitted members of the Red Army Faction, they presumably conform to a generic profile of the contemporary terrorists put together by the computers of the Federal Criminal Office. Almost all the known disciples of Andreas Baader are well-educated products of respectable-sometimes prominent-middle-and upper-middle-class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses of university towns, they...