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...Sandinistas, called on five friendly Latin American nations to mediate a ceasefire; the front itself refused to deal directly with Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
DIED. Willy Messerschmitt, 80, German industrialist and aircraft designer whose single-engine fighter plane dominated Luftwaffe squadrons during World War II; after surgery; in Munich. Awarded a glider pilot's license at the age of 15, Messerschmitt first gained fame building light sports planes. The young, soft-spoken engineer specialized in increasing aircraft speed and soon received military assignments. During the war, German factories filled European and African skies with 40,000 of his ME-109 fighters and ME-110 twin-engine bombers, aircraft so effective that Allied pilots who displayed bad nerves were said to have "the Messerschmitt...
...first anniversary of the terrorist kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His widow and children and the relatives of his slain chauffeur and bodyguards attended a ceremony at the simple stone monument on the Cologne street where the abduction took place. Hundreds of other citizens laid flowers at the foot of the wooden cross erected at the site a few days after the shooting. But accompanying the sorrow was a jittery feeling that radiated throughout the city and across West Germany. Many of the Red Army Faction, whose members had killed Schleyer, were still at large, and no one could...
...left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic forces that represent the great majority of the people who have placed themselves in civil opposition to this government." Adds Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a wealthy industrialist: "We feel more than ever the urgency to get rid of Somoza and the government because his presence provokes such [terrorist] actions...
...reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...