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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...
...morale boosters and lures for potential recruits. The shows are equally appreciated by the public for the excitement, speed and spectacle. But all that glamour was blasted away last week during a few hellish minutes at the Ramstein U.S. Air Base in West Germany, about 70 miles southwest of Frankfurt...