Word: factionalized
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...have warned Schmidt to expect what they call a "spontaneous reaction for the freedom of other jailed terrorists." Even though the Baader-Meinhof gang has been largely destroyed, an estimated 120 hard-core terrorists remain at large in Germany; many of them claim affiliation with the Red Army Faction, the country's most dangerous guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says Dr. Hans-Joseph Horchem...
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...
...Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking. Proclaiming Min Beirut's solidarity with the Red Army Faction, a message from the organization said that the purpose of the incident was "to secure the release of our comrades in prisons of the imperialist-reactionary-Zionist alliance...
While the Israeli faction headed by spokesmen such as Shahak and Langer remains very visible and vocal, it is still a tiny minority. Shahak said he expects the group's impact to remain at its present low level for the next several years. He estimates that the active membership of his own group is no more than a few hundred, although many more would rally to his cause, Shahak adds, if matters really came to a head--in the event of another war, for example. He characterizes the current mood in Israel as one of apathy that...
...extraordinary security precautions were in response to the kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore...