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STOCKHOLM, April 24, 1975 Terrorists seize West German embassy to demand release of 26 Baader-Meinhof gang members being held in German prisons. They set off explosion in building. Two diplomats and one terrorist die in firefight with police before terrorists surrender; ten other hostages are released...
...cooled after its own violent '60s. The rest of the world suffered a long siege: 17 died in the Palestinian terrorists' attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major...
...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...