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...murder of Schleyer will unquestionably increase the tension inside West Germany. In Hamburg, West Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, security was increased around officials. In Bonn, concertinas of barbed wire encircle government buildings, sandbagged gun emplacements protect door ways and guards with submachine guns patrol the grounds. The limousines of government officials speed along city streets tailed by escort autos with automatic weapons poking out from windows. Top-level businessmen constantly vary their daily schedules (making it difficult for terrorists to set traps for them) and are accompanied everywhere by bodyguards. (That did not help Schleyer. His three bodyguards were killed...
...well-to-do, churchgoing families and had attended universities, majoring in the social sciences. All had witnessed, and many had participated in, the Europe-wide May revolution of students in 1968; the Red Brigade terrorists seemed unable to accept its failure. A number of the 16 suspects wanted by Bonn for Schleyer's murder fit Ferracuti's profile. Christian Klar, for example, studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and once belonged to the Young Democrats, the youth branch of West Germany's relatively conservative Free Democrats. His father was archetypically middle class?a high-ranking school...
...constraints and balances of West German democracy make it unusually easy for terrorists to operate freely. With memories of the Nazi past still fresh, Bonn is reluctant to increase its police powers, fearing an outraged reaction at home and abroad. Other Europeans understandably remain very apprehensive about the re-emergence of the "bad German." The Federal Republic, moreover, has only limited authority over most police matters. Reason: the country's postwar constitution deliberately created West Germany as a relatively loose federation of states, to prevent a recurrence of Hitler's oppressive centralization. West Germany's decentralization also hinders coordinating intelligence...
...been hijacked. For the next five days, Gurdus recorded the remarkable radio traffic between Germany, the Middle East and Africa as Flight 181-designated Charlie Echo -flew precariously on to Rome, Cyprus, Bahrain, Dubai, Aden, and finally to Mogadishu, pursued by two other German aircraft. One carried Bonn's chief negotiator; both planes carried commandos. Gurdus' transcripts, made available exclusively to TIME, offer revealing details of the year's most dramatic rescue...
...Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, backed by his Cabinet and by opposition leaders, alerted Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (G.S.G. 9), the elite commando unit of West Germany's Border Protection Force. Thirty members of the unit left immediately for Cyprus aboard a Lufthansa 707, Flight 1231. But Flight 1231, in a near miss, arrived at Larnaca just as Flight 181 was taking off. Flight 1231 flew to Ankara to await further instructions, while the hijacked plane flew on to Bahrain and Dubai...