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...first in modern languages, married Ann Sharp, daughter of a much-decorated R.A.F. air marshal, taught at Eton, then joined the Foreign Service, "always seeking the brand names, the Good Housekeeping certificate of professions." From 1961 to 1963, Cornwell served as Second Secretary in the British embassy in Bonn; for two years after that he was a consul in Hamburg. "Again," he says, "I was plunged into an institutional life; again I felt completely alienated from...
...Bonn looked like a city at war-as, in a way, it was. The fortress-like Cologne-Bonn airport north of the West German capital was filled with machine-gun-bearing border police, supplemented by plainclothes agents in unmarked cars. Barbed wire surrounded almost every government building, as well as the houses of all high-level officials. Makeshift machine-gun bunkers, constructed of stacked sandbags, appeared on the rooftops of buildings throughout the city's government section along the Rhine. Night and day, armed police stopped virtually every car in the city and suburbs...
...dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
...nihilism of the terrorists worries West Germans; so does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would...
Such measures would bolster Bonn's police powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...