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...dramatic rescue came less than a month after the Tokyo government had surrendered to the ransom demands of five Japanese Red Army terrorists who had skyjacked a JAL jet with 156 passengers aboard. The determination and courage of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who ordered the commando attack, brought jubilant congratulatory messages from many of the world's leaders. President Jimmy Carter praised the West Germans for the "courage of their decision." Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, whose country mounted the successful rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe Airport on July 3, 1976, cabled, "It was indeed a salvation...
...larger consensus on terrorism may be emerging. The Soviet Union, which rarely says anything good about West Germany, gave favorable coverage to the commando rescue mission. East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer offered his country's services in dealing with Somalia. And, of course, Somalia ?long among the world's most notorious havens for skyjackers?cooperated in the rescue...
After Flight 181 was skyjacked, Schleyer's captors-who call themselves the Commando Siegfried Hausner unit of the Red Army Faction-sent one ultimatum to the West German government and a second to the Paris mass-circulation daily France-Soir. In the messages, the group boasted of its ties to the skyjackers and set out its demands. Among them: the release from West German prisons of eleven convicted urban guerrillas (including Andreas Baader, co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang); the freeing of two Palestinian guerrillas from Turkish jails; the transporting of the prisoners to Viet Nam, Somalia...
Tanks and mechanized infantry units of two divisions of the First Egyptian Army, normally assigned to defend the regime in Cairo, pummeled the three brigades that Gaddafi managed to throw into battle. Meanwhile nearly a dozen Egyptian commando and paratrooper battalions dropped behind Libyan lines, and three squadrons of MiG fighter jets bombed and strafed Libyan cities and military bases. The fierce armor and air battles raged for at least three days...
...symbolic act of defiance in 1969. He moved to Milan and began organizing small revolutionary groups in the city's major factories, then moved on to kidnaping factory executives and shooting government officials. Police captured Curcio in late 1974, but his wife, Margherita Cagol, led a commando raid against the lightly guarded prison and rescued him. Four months later, police closed in on Curcio's wife at a farm where she and some confederates were holding a kidnaped wine merchant. In the fight, Margherita, 29, was shot dead. When the authorities finally trapped Curcio in January 1976, they...