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...immediate release of 26 fellow terrorists currently held in West German jails, including Gang Leaders Ulrike Meinhof, 40, and Andreas Baader, 31, who are scheduled to stand trial May 21 in Stuttgart on charges of murder and grand larceny. The raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign country. Otherwise, they added, they would shoot one hostage every hour and finally would blow up the embassy with...
Soprano Judith Frankfurt, a member of the Collegium, made a successful solo debut. Her controlled light tone and sure sense of pitch put her on a par with her professional colleagues...
...ostensible reason for Mihajlov's trial was the publication, since 1971, of four of his articles by Posev, a stridently anti-Moscow Russian-language journal published in Frankfurt by Soviet émigrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting...
Some of the very rich have devised more ingenious methods to beat the cost of living. One of the Beautiful People, Manhattan's Suzie Frankfurt, a designer-collector, returned recently from a five-month tour of the Far East with her two young sons, examined the exchequer and decided that drastic measures would have to be taken if the family were not to resort to, well, frankfurters...
...Suzie Frankfurt sent out invitations to her 500 nearest and dearest friends, opened up part of her five-story, 16-room Manhattan townhouse and held a Garbage a la Rummage (pronounced Gahrbage a la Koomahge) sale. Some 3,000 nearest and dearest attended her sale, snapped up varied costly tric-a-brac-all for around...