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...flight-1 doubles, sophomore Kim Cooper and junior Amy deLone defeated Virginia's Riva Lapidus and Michelle McKeen in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, while freshman Ericka Elmuts and sophomore Jennifer Minkus prevailed over Illinois' Mary Beth Williams and Sabine Ensslin...
...another front, France last week agreed to Bonn's request for the extradition of Radical Lawyer Klaus Croissant, 47. The West Germans had previously charged him with aiding the illegal activities of his terrorist clients, including Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. Croissant fled to France last July, seeking political asylum; there his cause was championed by French leftists. But after lengthy hearings, a Paris appeals court ruled there was enough evidence against Croissant to warrant extradition...
...days later 1,000 radical sympathizers and curiosity-seekers attended a graveside service, also in Stuttgart, for the three Baader-Meinhof gang suicides -Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin. Once again police were there in force as West German radicals -some of them masked to conceal their identities-praised the dead prisoners as martyrs and chanted political slogans. A few carried banners: GUDRUN, ANDREAS AND JAN-TORTURED AND MURDERED AT STAMMHEIM...
...killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin, the top members of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen and 34 attempted killings...
...Meinhof hanged herself in her prison cell in 1976. Holger Meins, another defendant, had died before the trial began following a hunger strike. But Andreas Baader and his two remaining confederates, after a nearly two-year trial, finally heard judgment pronounced last week in Stuttgart. Baader, now 33, Gudrun Ensslin, 36, and Jan-Carl Raspe, 32, were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years-a judicial tactic to minimize the possibility of parole...