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MARRIED. Olga Korbut, 22, petite, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics; and Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with a popular Byelorussian folk-pop group called "Pesnyary"; she for the first time, he for the second; in Minsk...
...Greek youth's peregrinations between 1964 and 1972, when Getty Museum Curator Jiri Frel viewed him in Munich, are uncertain. By then, ownership was claimed by Artemis, a Luxembourg-based art consortium. Getty, the late oil billionaire, had begun a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at his U.S. home in Malibu, Calif., and expressed interest in the statue. But even he balked at the asking price-about $5 million. After his death in 1976, officials at his museum continued the quest for the statue, finally arriving at a deal this year...
...week's end the West German government received another embarrassing shock. Ingrid Schubert, 32, one of eleven jailed terrorists whose release had been demanded by Schleyer's kidnapers, was found dead in her Munich prison cell. She had apparently hanged herself. Schubert was the fourth terrorist to die in West German custody within the past month...
...high proficiency marks to the West German unit, which was not well known even within its own country before last week's successful mission to Mogadishu. Grenzschutzgruppe Neun, or Border Protection Group 9, was created five years ago, after a bungled West German rescue attempt led to the Munich massacre of nine Israeli hostages and five of their Palestinian captors. The man chosen to organize a new unit that would combat terrorism was its present commander: Ulrich Wegener, 48, a veteran officer of the federal border police. Wiry and tough, quiet and smart, Wegener saw his first military service...
...time of the Munich killings, West Germany's 22,000-man border force-consisted of eight groups. Wegener's new unit was simply labeled G.S.G. 9. But he was given an unusually large budget ($4.5 million to date) to set up his 178-man force and provide it with the most sophisticated anti-terrorist equipment...