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Schleyer was the tenth target of West German terrorists to die in the past year. Another victim was Captain Jurgen Schumann, 37, pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According...
...attended universities, majoring in the social sciences. All had witnessed, and many had participated in, the Europe-wide May revolution of students in 1968; the Red Brigade terrorists seemed unable to accept its failure. A number of the 16 suspects wanted by Bonn for Schleyer's murder fit Ferracuti's profile. Christian Klar, for example, studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and once belonged to the Young Democrats, the youth branch of West Germany's relatively conservative Free Democrats. His father was archetypically middle class?a high-ranking school administrator and riding club president...
...Steven Biko affair. "If the government is too scared to undertake a full-scale inquiry to establish the cold truth behind these very disturbing events then they are not fit to govern and direct the destinies of millions of people. Detentions leave us cold, Mr. Kruger...
...Tosteson is still feeling out possible changes in the teaching set-up, he has already changed the school's administrative structure to fit his style. He has created four deanships under his direction to handle four specific areas of concern--finance and business, students and alumni, academic programs, and medical services. Ebert's administrative set-up had less structure; when he retired after 12 years as dean, the school's administration had more informal lines of command...
...with the manifestations of social problems--housing and crime for instance--as well as with the social concerns themselves. The form this has taken in recent years is the Community Development (CD) program, a plan providing localities with block grants and the leeway to spend them as they see fit...