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Word: furgler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...pregnant embassy employee. They also decided to allow the Bern police to deliver packages of food, medicine and newspapers to the embassy's doorstep, and agreed to talk to a Polish-born Dominican priest, Josef Bochenski, 80. After intensive negotiations, which were led by Swiss Justice Minister Kurt Furgler, the gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: With the Precision of Clockwork | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

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