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Dutch police had been watching the apartment building in Amsterdam's working-class Osdorp section for days. During the search for kidnaped Millionaire Maurits Caransa, who was seized late last month and released five days later, authorities discovered that two young West German terrorists were living at Baden Powell Road 217. Though the Germans were not wanted in the Caransa case, one was suspected of having a role in the murder of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the other of involvement in the bombing of a German regional courthouse...
Investigations were also continuing into the deaths of Baader and the other members of his gang; two had died of pistol wounds, the third by hanging. The state government of Baden-Wurttemberg, which runs Stammheim prison, issued a preliminary report. In the terrorists' cells, investigators had found hidden explosives, razor blades, a radio and homemade Morse code equipment. They theorized that when one prisoner, Raspe, had picked up the news of the Mogadishu raid on his secret transistor radio, he immediately passed the word to the others through Morse code signals. This, the investigators speculated, led the prisoners...
...Baden Baden, West Germany...
...nastier aspects of life even material security and good taste cannot overcome--loss of control and death. The wife is haunted by the fear that something will happen to her five-year-old. The husband refuses to fly, and is horrified to find that she took a plane to Baden. Unfortunately neither one is very sympathetic to the other's fears; instead of comforting each other they suffer separately...
...sensitive, slow-paced direction of Joseph Losey is well suited to a film that operates more on the level of fear and fantasy than of realistic plot development. The Romantic Englishwoman is extremely well-edited, revealing aspects of the story almost impossible to capture in another medium. In Baden, for example, the gigolo follows the wife from a casino to her hotel. As she reaches the lobby, the telephone is ringing--it is her husband, calling to check up on her for the nth time. She is annoyed, and short with him: "The lift is here. Good-bye." She gets...