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That grim message was delivered to Bonn news agencies after three convicted members of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang committed suicide last month in their prison cells following West Germany's antiterrorist raid at Mogadishu. As the deadline arrived last week, West Germany's national airline responded with a policy of saturation security for its 411 daily scheduled flights worldwide. Fortunately, as the first tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news...
...another front, France last week agreed to Bonn's request for the extradition of Radical Lawyer Klaus Croissant, 47. The West Germans had previously charged him with aiding the illegal activities of his terrorist clients, including Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. Croissant fled to France last July, seeking political asylum; there his cause was championed by French leftists. But after lengthy hearings, a Paris appeals court ruled there was enough evidence against Croissant to warrant extradition...
...Germany, it seemed, was undergoing a security check. The government even sent its own security guards to 13 foreign airports that it regards as sloppily run -starting with Palma, Majorca, where the four hijackers had boarded the Lufthansa flight two weeks earlier. Bonn told Madrid flatly that unless the Germans were allowed to handle their own security, they would cancel all flights between Majorca and West Germany. Anxious to avoid such a blow to its tourist industry, the Spanish government reluctantly agreed...
...mountain climbing. Among other special training: 140 hrs. of karate. The men spend up to four hours a day practicing with weapons that range from Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolvers to a variety of machine guns and other automatic weapons. At G.S.G. 9 headquarters in St. Augustin, near Bonn, they study the tactics of terrorist organizations and learn a variety of skills-picking locks, for example, or impersonating airline cabin attendants and mechanics. They specifically train in a wide range of Lufthansa aircraft, including the Boeing 737. Also stressed is an attribute of unusual importance: the ability to maintain...
West Germany and Japan both have their hands full trying to dispose of the mounting stockpile of spent fuel at their reactors. The Bonn government, for instance, rapidly accelerated its nuclear electrification program after the 1973 Arab oil boycott, and now has 13 atomic power plants. But the whole program has fallen into a state of semiparalysis as a result of political opposition and a barrage of court injunctions from environmentalists...