Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite secret contacts between the government and the terrorists through an intermediary, Swiss Lawyer Denis Payot, fear grew that Schleyer's chance of survival was slim. The terrorists had demanded that eleven jailed terrorists, including the leaders of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen, be given safe passage to a country of their choice, either Libya or South Yemen. In letters to West German newspapers, TV and radio stations, Schleyer's kidnapers threatened that unless their demands were met he would be shot...
...fault, believe it or not, lies with the hitters. Yes, "The Over The Wall Gang." Uh-huh, "The Bay State Rollers." For all their RBIs, home runs and palm slapping, the Red Sox line-up has dismally failed countless numbers of times to get the clutch hits, the come-from-behind runs, and the late-inning rallies that are instrumental for division-winners and were the trademarks of the previous pennant-winning squads of 1967 and 1975. Sure, it's disappointing to see Rick Wise give up eight runs in the first two innings, but when George Scott lets...
...message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin, the top members of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen and 34 attempted killings...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...
Some Sinologists believe that these documents, which have had limited circulation inside China, are the work of embittered party officials who were purged by Hua for complicity with the Gang of Four. Equally intriguing are homemade wall posters suggesting that China now has a small human rights movement. In Kunming, one poster demanded that people be allowed to live where they please instead of being assigned their place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster...