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...terrorists quickly identified themselves as supporters of West Germany's infamous Baader-Meinhof gang, a band of leftist extremists who have been held responsible for a succession of violent crimes. Their demands: the immediate release of 26 fellow terrorists currently held in West German jails, including Gang Leaders Ulrike Meinhof, 40, and Andreas Baader, 31, who are scheduled to stand trial May 21 in Stuttgart on charges of murder and grand larceny. The raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign...
Berlin police were quickly able to identify the blonde Fiat driver as Angela Luther, 34, a suspected supporter of West Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of radical terrorists. Scarcely 24 hours after the kidnaping, however, the West German news agency DPA received a better explanation-a letter from the kidnapers and a photograph of the captured Lorenz-of what had happened. The kidnapers identified themselves as the "June Second Movement," referring to the day in 1967 when police shot and killed a member of a crowd of students protesting a visit to West Germany by the Shah...
...June Second Movement demanded freedom for six jailed radicals involved in Baader-Meinhof-style criminal operations-curiously not including gang leaders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. They also wanted authorities to annul all verdicts handed down against demonstrators who had violently protested the death by prison hunger strike of a gang member named Holger Meins. One result of the violence was the murder of West Berlin Supreme Court President Giinter von Drenk-mann. It is suspected that he was killed in retaliation for Meins' death (TIME, Dec. 9). Unless the six prisoners were released, provided with...
...precautions in West Berlin's history. As 200 policemen guarded the courthouse against student demonstrators, security men with machine guns and Alsatian dogs patrolled the corridors. The defendants themselves sat in bullet-proof-glass enclosures-popping up occasionally to denounce the authorities as "swine" and "fascists." After Ulrike Meinhof took the witness stand and praised the freeing of Baader as "an outstanding example of urban guerrilla activity," few expected an acquittal...
Disturbing Parallels. Last week the court sentenced Meinhof (who is also reported near death from starvation) to eight years on charges of attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms...