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...police precautions were prompted by West Germany's concern over the possibility of some sensational new outrage by the Baader-Meinhof gang of political terrorists. Yet the tense atmosphere seemed to symbolize the fact that Carter is embroiled not only with the Soviets but also with some allies, namely the West Germans. Now he had come to attend a seven-nation economic summit conference and, coincidentally, to see if the Bonn-Washington coolness could be remedied...
...Tuesday police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could be found in a tiny lake high in the Apennine mountains 70 miles northeast of Rome. Helicopters carrying frogmen and Alpine troops converged on the mountainside. The lake, virtually unreachable except by sophisticated mountaineers, was nearly frozen...
This winter the government put Groenewold and Croissant on trial for their defense tactics. Strobele may also face prosecution, along with a dozen other radical lawyers, on various charges. Croissant's trial, in the Stuttgart court where the Baader gang leaders were convicted last spring, is likely to be less restrained than Groenewold's. Croissant is more given to outbursts than his colleague, and his lawyers delayed the trial soon after it began by refusing to unzip their trousers so that guards could inspect their underwear for weapons. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled early this month that...
...before Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer was kidnaped last September-presumably to regain strength for their expected release in exchange for Schleyer's freedom. Other radical lawyers have carried more than pamphlets or information into prison. Arndt Müller was accused of smuggling weapons in his briefcase to Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe, who used them to commit suicide after the dramatic rescue last October of Lufthansa passengers held hostage in Mogadishu, Somalia. Siegfried Haag awaits trial in a Bochum prison on charges of carrying weapons to terrorists and of planning a 1975 raid on the West German embassy...
...obvious-problem, say civil libertarians, is that laws specifically designed for the Baader-Meinhof lawyers have universal application. Indeed, a prosecutor tried to apply a section of the so-called Lex Baader-Meinhof to a lawyer in an ordinary extortion and robbery case in Cologne before it was applied to radical lawyers, prompting an appeals court, which denied the exclusion, to warn against using it as a "handy disciplinary measure...