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...could change should Ethiopia invade Somalia. In that event, the Shah of Iran and Egypt's Anwar Sadat have already offered to help. Somalia is meanwhile getting "nonmilitary" financial assistance from West Germany, partly out of gratitude for the decision to allow West German commandos to fly into Mogadishu and rescue 86 hostages in the Lufthansa hijacking last October. For the moment, the West is backing the OAU committee which is seeking a negotiated settlement to the Ethiopian-Somalian conflict. Says an African diplomat in Nairobi: "It's a difficult question but not insoluble. The important thing...
Radical terrorism remained an affliction of the Western democracies, but one battle was won in that war. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bravely outplayed the Palestinian terrorists who skyjacked a Lufthansa airliner in October, saving the lives of 86 with a commando attack at Mogadishu, Somalia. Soon afterward, however, the body of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnaped by Baader-Meinhof gangsters six weeks earlier, was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in France...
...Jillian Becker, author of a flamboyant history of the radical Baader-Meinhof gang, calls the terrorists "Hitler's children." Others fear that their violence will coax fascism up from the rubble where it was buried 30 years ago. After the dramatic German rescue of hijacked Lufthansa passengers at Mogadishu two months ago, a Dutch diplomat's mind wandered back uneasily to the abyss: "You can't help getting the shivers at the precision with which the rescue operation was carried out. It was German military skill at work again...
...moment, the Ogaden war remains a stalemate, with Somali forces holding most of the disputed territory and maintaining pressure on the strategic Ethiopian-held towns of Harar and Dire Dawa. Most diplomatic sources in Mogadishu believe, however, that when new shipments of heavy Soviet military equipment already in Ethiopia begin to show up in the field, the tide of battle could well turn against the Somalis...
That grim message was delivered to Bonn news agencies after three convicted members of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang committed suicide last month in their prison cells following West Germany's antiterrorist raid at Mogadishu. As the deadline arrived last week, West Germany's national airline responded with a policy of saturation security for its 411 daily scheduled flights worldwide. Fortunately, as the first tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news...