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COME out," shouted the policeman through a loudspeaker. "Your chances are zero." The defiant answer from the men trapped in a garage in a residential section of Frankfurt last week was a hail of gunfire. The police, supported by a lumbering armored car, poured bullets and tear-gas canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed...
...gradual growth of his mind. After the early Paris period when he thought his feet could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats and O'Casey among others-and he dreamed of becoming an "artist" whose art could be determined later...
Israelis or visitors who are unwise enough to drive their cars through the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem on the Sabbath often encounter a hail of stones. A teen-age girl who naively walks through the same district in a miniskirt may find herself angrily chased by Orthodox youths shouting "Zonah! Zonah!" ("Whore! Whore!"). Many pathologists in Israeli hospitals receive death threats from Orthodox fanatics for performing autopsies, which according to Orthodoxy are a desecration of the dead. Hospitals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv closed down briefly in protest against police failure to curb the threats...
Partly because he has triumphed over the frustrations suffered by others, fellow muckrakers almost to a man hail Anderson as a hero. Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan rasps: "I think he is one of the absolutely greatest there ever was." I.F. Stone finds him "filled with a good, wholesome attitude that every public official is an s.o.b. unless proved otherwise...
...Anthony Burgess, a first-rate commentator on fiction, still "gains no pleasure from serious reading that lacks a strong male thrust and a brutal intellectual content." Louis Auchincloss once paused in the course of a critical essay on Jean Stafford to express awe that she was resourceful enough to hail...