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When police seized three top leaders .and more than 20 alleged followers of the celebrated Baader-Meinhof gang in the summer of 1972, many West Germans felt a sense of relief. During a two-year reign of anarchist-inspired violence, the group, which styled itself the "Red Army Faction," was accused of dozens of bombings, bank robberies and cops-and-robbers shootouts. Since then, all of the defendants have remained locked up awaiting trial, but the authorities fear that the group's sympathizers have reorganized for another outbreak of terror...
Last week, in the biggest dragnet since the 1972 raids, West German police swept through scores of homes in search of members of suspected terrorist organizations. At least 14 people were arrested, including Wolf-Dieter Reinhard, 35, a Hamburg lawyer who represented some of the Baader-Meinhof defendants. Reinhard was held on suspicion of belonging to an anarchist group that murdered one of its members when he talked to police...
Tension has been building ever since three members of the gang-Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist, Hans Jurgen Baecker, 36, a garage mechanic, and Horst Mahler, 39, a lawyer who rose to fame by defending student demonstrators-went on trial in September on charges of having helped Ringleader Andreas Baader escape from a previous imprisonment in 1970 (he was recaptured in 1972). As the trial began, 17 Baader-Meinhof prisoners across the country went on hunger strikes to protest their incarceration in solitary confinement. Their lawyers charged that they were held for months in "sensory-deprivation" cubicles lacking light...
...possibly the least likely top diplomat in West German history. Genscher has virtually no experience in foreign affairs and speaks only German. As Minister of the Interior since 1969, he encouraged modernization of German police departments and established a strong law-and-order image by capturing the Baader-Meinhof gang of bomb-throwing anarchists. Genscher lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and began a tough program to protect the environment. In an April poll, he ranked just behind Scheel and Brandt as Germany's third most popular politician...
...hostages, he was told that the Palestinians would shortly deliver their demands. At 9 a.m. the Arabs tossed out of a window a message in English that listed 200 Arab prisoners presently held in Israeli jails and demanded their release. Also on the list were the names of Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader, leaders of a gang of German leftist terrorists that had robbed at least eight banks, bombed U.S. Army posts and killed three policemen before the last members were captured in June, and Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese terrorist who took part in last May's massacre...