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...winter's night, a man bound by tape to a bench in Wilmersdorf park struggled to free himself. Eventually, the man escaped his bonds, walked out of the park, found a telephone booth and called his wife. "Hello, Marianne. This is Peter," he said. The caller was Peter Lorenz, chairman of West Berlin's Christian Democratic Union and the party's candidate for mayor of the city. Six days earlier, he had been kidnaped by a gang of militant young anarchists, whose daring act startled all of West Germany (TIME, March 10). In the end, Lorenz...
...Lorenz's call to his wife triggered a vast manhunt. Within minutes, police roadblocks sealed off the southwest section of the city, in which Wilmersdorf park is located. Special flying squadrons raided known leftist hangouts-cafés, clubhouses and homes; doors were smashed in, safes and filing cabinets broken open...
...press conference following his release, Lorenz said that the terrorists -after overpowering him and his chauffeur while he was driving to C.D.U. headquarters-immediately sedated him with drug injections. He was kept under heavy guard in what Lorenz described as a "cell" -a 7-ft. by 10-ft. room, containing only a bed, a chair and a table-located in a Berlin cellar. Said he: "I have no idea where it was." Lorenz insisted that he had not been tortured and that considering the circumstances, his treatment by the abductors was "correct...
Lackluster Image. The kidnapers said that Lorenz was a "representative of the reactionaries and the big bosses." In fact, Lorenz is a mild-mannered and scholarly politician who has often been criticized by his fellow C.D.U. members for being too much of a moderate. Despite his lackluster low-profile image, he stood a chance of winning Sunday's election-which the municipal government decided to let take place despite the kidnaping. Lorenz now may well benefit from a sympathy vote, as well as from a backlash against the governing Social Democrats led by Mayor Klaus...
Occupying Powers. Government authorities set up crisis centers in Bonn and West Berlin, and police launched a search for Lorenz and his kidnapers, also broadcasting an appeal over nationwide television for "convincing evidence" that Lorenz is still alive. On Saturday an anonymous caller told C.D.U. headquarters that Lorenz would be released after all demands had been met, but there was no way of knowing if the caller was really one of the kidnapers. Lorenz also sent two letters to his wife saying that he was well and hoped to be with her soon...