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...Faction or its allies in the international network of terror. Somewhere near Aachen, an illegal radio transmitter sputtered for a few minutes last week on the frequency used by the U.S. armed forces network. "Schleyer will not be the last," it promised. Calling for the "destruction of the imperialist, corrupt, rotten place that calls itself the Federal Republic of Germany," it continued: "Destroy all police stations, banks, city halls ... The fight continues. We will not stop until the last government official is wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Spreading Brushfire | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, said yesterday he would have serious doubts about the legitimacy of a grant coming directly from a "very oppressive and very corrupt regime...

Author: By James L. Tyson jr., | Title: Tufts Faculty Members Protest Philippine Grant | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

Last week's mass arrest in Boston also depended partly on the grand jury testimony of a suspected torch who turned state's evidence, pointing the finger at local landlords and corrupt city officials. Until then, private investigators for insurance companies had been sniffing around the remains of burned-out houses, working the streets and doing undercover work in Boston bars with an eye out for well-known torches. With evidence of a conspiracy growing, 15 teams of city and state police joined the private eyes, and finally, after 16 months of probing suspicious fires in the Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arson for Hate and Profit | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...kidnapers to convey previous messages, received a telephone call from a terrorist. He identified himself as a member of the Commando Siegfried Hausner of the Red Army Faction?the group taking credit for the abduction. "After 43 days," he said, "we have put an end to the miserable and corrupt existence of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His death does not measure up to our grief and anger after the slaughter at Mogadishu and Stammheim." The caller then said Schmidt could "take delivery [of Schleyer] in Charles Péguy Street in Mulhouse." which is about ten miles from the German border. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: War Without Boundaries | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Army Faction or Italy's Red Brigades, nihilistically seek to destroy the societies that shelter them, and give little coherent thought to ultimate goals. Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have specific targets-overthrowing regimes they regard as corrupt and oppressive. Still others, like the Proves of the Irish Republican Army, regard themselves as the vanguard of regional independence movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Tightening Links of Terrorism | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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