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Most terrorists are not so maladroit. The Red Army Faction in Munich planted bombs at the U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg, killing three Americans, and boasts of another bombing in Frankfurt, which killed an American colonel. West German Autobahnen have been strung with roadblocks, and police searched for the remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into...
COME out," shouted the policeman through a loudspeaker. "Your chances are zero." The defiant answer from the men trapped in a garage in a residential section of Frankfurt last week was a hail of gunfire. The police, supported by a lumbering armored car, poured bullets and tear-gas canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed...
...bachelor pad in Germany, Pianist Michael Ponti sometimes practices for ten hours at a stretch. In Frankfurt, an upstairs neighbor registered disapproval of the noise by dropping bowling balls on the floor, and finally sought other quarters. In Wiesbaden, the ten chickens who lived in an oversized coop behind the house suffered in silence until one day they simply quit laying eggs. Ponti then had all ten killed and ate them, after which he moved his piano into the coop. "It's a fine studio," says Ponti, "and the acoustics are simply marvelous...
Instead, Ponti went to Germany and enrolled at the Frankfurt Conservatory. There he began his penchant for marathon practicing-but only of actual compositions. "I never did exercises and scales in my life," he says. "I'm not even a particularly good sight reader. There's no secret to my technique: I just work hard and play the literature...
...criminal gang led by West Germany's "Bonnie und Clyde" -sometime Journalist Ulrike Meinhof, 37, and Student Revolutionary Andreas Baader, 29 (TIME, Feb. 7). Meinhof and Baader, whose previous exploits included bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police, took credit for bombing the Army headquarters in Frankfurt. The explosion, they said in a message to the press, was intended as a protest against the Army's "extermination strategies in Viet Nam." Anarchist groups known to sympathize with the Baader-Meinhof gang claimed credit for three of the other terrorist acts. Though nobody has yet declared himself...