Word: frankfurt
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...weeks ago without exacting "any political price" -- or so the Bonn government insisted. Cordes' kidnapers had originally demanded freedom for the Hammadi brothers, two terrorists being held in Germany. But Abbas Hammadi is serving a 13-year prison term in Dusseldorf, and Mohammed Ali Hammadi is on trial in Frankfurt for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, a U.S. Navy diver...
Washington agrees to more than $500 million in back payments in recognition of U. N. reforms and diplomatic triumphs. -- Where is the outrage over Iraq' s use of chemical weapons? -- The Burmese government' s grip on power slips further. -- In Frankfurt, a TWA captain testifies that Accused Hijacker Mohammed Ali Hammadi committed murder. -- A coup ousts Haiti' s military ruler...
...West gained a bit more ground last week in its fight against the scourge of terrorism. In a high-security courtroom in Frankfurt, Mohammed Ali Hammadi faced the most damaging testimony yet in his two-month-old trial for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver. In Beirut, meanwhile, West German Businessman Rudolf Cordes, kidnaped 20 months ago as a direct result of Hammadi's capture, was suddenly released. Thus Bonn, which had unwittingly put its citizens at risk because a terrorist happened to fall into its hands, could breathe easier...
Hammadi was arrested 19 months after the TWA hijacking for trying to smuggle liquid explosives through Frankfurt's international airport. Within a few days, fellow members of a Shi'ite subsect believed to have links with the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God) kidnaped Cordes and Alfred Schmidt, another West German, as bargaining chips for Hammadi's release. Bonn refused any such deal but turned down a U.S. request for Hammadi's extradition...
Schmidt was set free a year ago, reportedly after his employer, the Siemens electric company, paid up to $10 million in ransom. The weekly magazine Stern said last week that a mysterious detective involved in Schmidt's release had also been negotiating on behalf of Cordes' company, the Frankfurt chemical firm Hoechst AG. The company labeled that claim "outrageous...