Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roaming Anarchists. The sources of all this concern are hard-core members of a group of anarchists who call themselves the "Red Army Faction," but are popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. On trial are Ringleader Andreas Baader, 32, an art school dropout; Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist; Gudrun Ensslin, 34, a former teacher; and Jan-Carl Raspe, 30, sociologist. A fifth defendant, Holger Meins, died in prison last November after a two-month hunger strike. All are middle-class revolutionaries who emerged from the 1968 student rebellions in Germany determined to destroy "the System...
Rumors were rife that the gang's supporters would go to extreme lengths to disrupt the trial. A Stockholm newspaper received a letter threatening "unusual actions," including an attack upon Stuttgart with rockets, flamethrowers and mustard gas, if amnesty was not granted. Since two quarts of the deadly gas had mysteriously disappeared from a North German army post a few days earlier, the government sent urgent instructions to all West German hospitals and private doctors on how to treat mustard-gas burns. Authorities were also alarmed when one of the defense lawyers representing the terrorists disappeared shortly before...
...Democratic Governor Hugh Carey exploded in wrath, largely because the state government now faces enormous pressure to bail out the impecunious city. He wildly criticized the President for displaying a "level of arrogance and disregard for New York that rivals the worst days of Richard Nixon and his gang of cutthroats." Varying the analogy, he added: "We didn't even get 30 pieces of silver." But Ford argued persuasively that he was acting in the best interests of New York. In his "Dear Abe" letter of rejection, the President wrote that lending money to the city or guaranteeing...
...film directed by K. Stekly (who is well in his 70s and the only director who agreed to do the job). The film is called The Enemy at the Wheel and is supposed to be an allegory on the 1968 events. The story goes something like this: a gang of cab drivers (former intellectuals and criminals) arrange the firing of a manager and the foreman of a garage, both devoted communists. The foreman's wife is seduced by her former lover, recently returned from emigration, who intends to take her with him to the capitalists. But, thanks to Providence...
...owes the IRS some $15,000, and to outwit them he has even sold the rights to Dear America to a community organization for which he works. "I can't own anything," he explains in a soft voice. "Those IRS people are Like a gang of thugs." His first marriage, which produced two sons, ended in divorce in 1967. Now he lives with his second wife, Freelance Editor-Artist Therese Machotka, in a three-room flat over a store in a racially mixed Washington, D.C., neighborhood. He exudes what a friend has described as "the ethereal, inexplicable cheerfulness...