Word: meinhof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American art collectors are bustling to the same destination for a look at what's new in Persian knickknacks. Neither group gets very far because the most active passengers of all are a team of hijackers-two Arabs and two young, middle-class Dutch radicals of the Baader-Meinhof persuasion...
...London, Scotland Yard detectives nabbed Astrid Proll, 31, wanted for taking part in the 1970 attack that freed Terrorist Andreas Baader. Scheduled to stand trial on attempted murder and bank robbery charges with others in the Baader-Meinhof gang, Proll had been released from custody for medical reasons and had jumped bail. When arrested, she was working at a government-sponsored vocational training school...
...police precautions were prompted by West Germany's concern over the possibility of some sensational new outrage by the Baader-Meinhof gang of political terrorists. Yet the tense atmosphere seemed to symbolize the fact that Carter is embroiled not only with the Soviets but also with some allies, namely the West Germans. Now he had come to attend a seven-nation economic summit conference and, coincidentally, to see if the Bonn-Washington coolness could be remedied...
...police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could be found in a tiny lake high in the Apennine mountains 70 miles northeast of Rome. Helicopters carrying frogmen and Alpine troops converged on the mountainside. The lake, virtually unreachable except by sophisticated mountaineers, was nearly frozen solid...
...obvious-problem, say civil libertarians, is that laws specifically designed for the Baader-Meinhof lawyers have universal application. Indeed, a prosecutor tried to apply a section of the so-called Lex Baader-Meinhof to a lawyer in an ordinary extortion and robbery case in Cologne before it was applied to radical lawyers, prompting an appeals court, which denied the exclusion, to warn against using it as a "handy disciplinary measure...