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...first police theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental...
...American post exchange in Frankfurt is reserved for U.S. servicemen and their dependents, and patrons must pass through a military-police checkpoint to enter. No such restrictions apply to the vicinity around the PX, however, and it was there last week that terrorists struck. As customers went about their pre-Thanksgiving shopping, a bomb hidden in a car parked about 250 yards from the PX exploded, injuring 35 people, most of them Americans. The attack was the 19th this year against U.S. military posts in West Germany. On Aug. 8, two Americans were killed and 20 injured at the Rhein...
...threw a grenade toward a nearby espresso bar and hamburger counter, where General Donato Miranda Acosta, the military attaché at the Mexican embassy in Rome, was sipping coffee with his secretary, Genoveva Jaime Cisneros, who was there to see him and his family off on a vacation trip to Frankfurt. Miranda Acosta and Cisneros were probably the first to be killed. Then the attackers raked the 820-ft.-long terminal with bullets, hitting people waiting for an E1 A1 flight and others at nearby TWA and Pan Am counters. The men jumped up and down in a frenzy, screaming...
...guards Vienna's Schwechat Airport but ruled out isolating the El Al check-in area in a remote corner of the airport because, as one spokesman put it, the airline did not want to operate in "a ghetto." Highly visible armed police patrolled El Al check-in areas at Frankfurt, Munich and Paris airports. Passengers on the twice-weekly El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Madrid, which is said to be a likely target for terrorists, were questioned about their reasons for traveling to Israel. At Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Britain's Manchester airport, workers staged...
...when Sharp brought its liquid-crystal-display TVs to the global market, it began making record profits. To be the best, a company has to have sound knowledge about market demand, design and manufacturing?plus technological strengths. Machida has succeeded because of his company's sharper focus. Kakoli Senapati Frankfurt, Germany...