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...first it looked like nothing more than a violent spasm in the 23-year-long war between Germany's Red Army Faction terrorists and the government. On June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...
...painted a picture of bungling, murder and cover-up. The scandal has ruined the careers of high government officials, and two GSG-9 men are under investigation for allegedly shooting Grams in cold blood as he lay helpless on track 4 of the Bad Kleinen station. The Red Army Faction, which had indicated that it might abandon violence, says it will resume its assassination tactics. The future of GSG-9 is in doubt, and Grams has become a martyr among young German leftists...
...made further contacts among the Red Army Faction leadership and on June 27 told GSG-9 he was to meet Hogefeld and Grams at the Bad Kleinen station. While Steinmetz and his R.A.F. companions sat talking in the station / restaurant, 54 officers deployed around the building to close in as the three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from...
JERUSALEM -- Yasser Arafat is in a fight to retain his position as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a post he has held for 24 years. A dissident group within the central committee of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the P.L.O., has been threatening to demand his removal. Under pressure, Arafat agreed to convene a rare session of the larger, 100-member revolutionary council in Tunis this week to discuss the controversy. Some in the P.L.O. want to oust Arafat because of their dismay over his handling of peace talks with Israel. Says a Fatah official: "For the Chairman this...
...civilian casualties are almost entirely American. While the U.N. military forces are ostensibly led by Turkish General Cevik Bir, his staff is predominantly American and the real boss in Somalia is U.N. special representative Jonathan Howe, a retired U.S. Navy admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American. "The U.S. is quick to stir up trouble with air strikes," said a Pakistani peacekeeper...