Word: herrhausen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leadership of 15 to 20 people retains considerable destructive force. Over the past five years the R.A.F., a successor to the feared Baader-Meinhof gang, has attempted to assassinate six leading West German figures -- and succeeded four times. Eight months ago, the group killed Deutsche Bank chief executive Alfred Herrhausen, a personal adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, by exploding a bomb along a street as Herrhausen's armored Mercedes-Benz 500SE limousine passed by. Antiterrorist expert Neusel escaped that fate only because his chauffeur was on holiday: Neusel was driving and the blast ripped through the passenger side...