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...terrorists conclude they could change American foreign policy by taking hostages, the kidnapings would only increase -- it differed considerably in tone from earlier threats to kill the captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price" -- or so the Bonn government insisted. Cordes' kidnapers had originally demanded freedom for the Hammadi brothers, two terrorists being held in Germany. But Abbas Hammadi is serving a 13-year prison term in Dusseldorf, and Mohammed Ali Hammadi is on trial in Frankfurt for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder...
...sovereign governments that back terrorists, even though that policy may result in dragging out the captivity of the hostages for agonizing months. Accounts differ as to how much control Iran has over the Muslim extremists in Lebanon. West German experience indicates that it is strong but not absolute; Bonn officials hint that Tehran had to exert heavy pressure for months on the terrorists to get them to let Cordes...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Margot Hornblower, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...damaging testimony yet in his two-month-old trial for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver. In Beirut, meanwhile, West German Businessman Rudolf Cordes, kidnaped 20 months ago as a direct result of Hammadi's capture, was suddenly released. Thus Bonn, which had unwittingly put its citizens at risk because a terrorist happened to fall into its hands, could breathe easier, and with a measure of satisfaction...
...trying to smuggle liquid explosives through Frankfurt's international airport. Within a few days, fellow members of a Shi'ite subsect believed to have links with the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God) kidnaped Cordes and Alfred Schmidt, another West German, as bargaining chips for Hammadi's release. Bonn refused any such deal but turned down a U.S. request for Hammadi's extradition...