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After a brutal kidnaping Bonn plans to get tough on terrorists...
...report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous at any time," and an additional 6,000 might give the terrorists "more than verbal support " No wonder that traditionally law-abiding West Germans are clamoring loudly for Bonn to take swift and decisive action against what appears to be a terrorist epidemic...
...coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences. "It's a bit frightening," observes a security officer from a Western country who serves as a liaison in Bonn. "When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always tons of literature-wall-to-wall Marx and Marcuse. But here, they find nothing-no literature, just weapons...
...Bonn could well afford a program of expansion, but most other European governments are strapped. Last week Denmark, faced with both 10.4% unemployment and a projected trade deficit this year of $1.7 billion, felt forced to impose a $1 billion tax increase. Sweden, expecting a $3.6 billion balance of payments deficit by year's end and struggling with an annual rate of inflation at about 16%, last week devalued the krona by 10%, and is considering other austerity measures. The country also pulled out of the European monetary "snake," the collection of currencies tied to the West German mark...
...Italian government requested Kappler's extradition, but Bonn indicated that it would turn down the request. The West German constitution prohibits turning a German citizen over for foreign prosecution, and the Justice Ministry said that this applied even though Kappler was a war criminal. Nor was there much chance that Germany itself would prosecute Kappler. Despite a vigorous re-examination of the Nazi era in books and film (see following story), German opinion has favored his release because of his illness; the government itself requested clemency last year for the same reason...