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Throughout the week West German police pressed their search for 16 terrorists wanted in connection with the Lufthansa skyjacking and Schleyer's kidnap-murder. Across the border French police were combing the area around Mulhouse-including the surviving concrete bunkers of World War II's Maginot Line, which would make excellent hiding places in the dense forests of Alsace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Spreading Brushfire | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...coffin, and in any case, part of the fun with the book is in finding out how it is done. That was the case with Godey's earlier The Taking of Pelham One Two Three--how in the world, the reader wants to know, could a group of men kidnap a subway car in New York...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: Exhuming the '60s | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

Through his informer network-composed of former concentration camp inmates-Wiesenthal learned that Mengele had settled in Argentina and alerted the Israelis and West Germans. The West Germans requested Mengele's extradition, but the Argentines refused. Dispensing with legal niceties, the Israelis planned to kidnap him at the same time that they seized SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. But the doctor got away. Under questioning in Israel, Eichmann admitted that he had received money from Mengele, whose family is wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMINALS: Wiesenthal's Last Hunt | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...shortage, concocted by conservatives hoping to scar the left, send housewives rushing to stores -thus making the shortage real. Giscard survives an assassination attempt. A right-wing general calls for "resistance" and goes underground. Militant ecologists, aroused over the government's commitment to nuclear weapons and power plants, kidnap the Defense Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: If the Left Wins | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...husband. Minutes later, she and the chauffeur heard raised voices, then gunshots. They rushed into the room to find Ponto mortally wounded by five shots in his head and chest. Albrecht and her accomplices were fleeing across the lawn of the estate. Police theorized that they had planned to kidnap Ponto, and that he had resisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Red Roses from Roter Morgen | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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