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...patient in the shiny new emergency ward of Suburban General Hospital in Norristown, Pa., inexplicably began to turn blue last month while presumably breathing oxygen. To his horror, Dr. Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled OXYGEN was actually pumping nitrous oxide to his patient. After a preliminary investigation, hospital authorities last week admitted that mislabeled pipe connections for the anesthetic gas "may have" caused as many as five deaths in the hospital since Suburban opened its wing almost eight months ago. In all, some 300 patients were apparently dosed with nitrous oxide by mistake...
HITLER'S CHILDREN by JULIAN BECKER. Illustrated. 322 pages. Lippincott...
...Novelist Becker (The Keep, The Union) indicates in her first documentary book, the Baader-Meinhof group sprouted from the roots of German student protest against archaic regulations and extreme overcrowding in the universities. But after West Berlin police shot a student demonstrating against a visit by the Shah of Iran, protest graduated to violence. Baader had come to West Berlin to escape the draft, Meinhof to be nearer the "revolution." There, they recruited colleagues who shared some basic zealotries: West Germany's "performance society" induced mental illness in its citizens; the struggle against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam must...
...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...
Police found pistols, revolvers and a stiletto in the captured couple's rucksacks, as well as train tickets to Zurich and several forged identity documents. Authorities suspect that Sonnenberg and Becker had been bringing the arms and documents to a secret meeting of terrorists in Switzerland when they were recognized from newspaper photos by the sharp-eyed old lady in Singen. German and Swiss police were on high-priority alert last week as they searched for two other suspects in the Buback assassination conspiracy...