Word: ponto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Industrialist Harms-Martin Schleyer and the deaths of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and Banker Jürgen Ponto...
Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Sopranos Arleen Augér, Ileana Cotrubas and Edith Gruberova, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Werner Hollweg, Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); La Clemenza di Tito (Mezzos Janet Baker and Yvonne Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis, conductor; Philips; 3 LPs). Mozart composed Mitridate when he was only 14; La Clemenza came just before he died at 35. Both works are all but forgotten. They are opera seria, the early style of Italian opera that can present obstacles for the modern...
...most notorious of the arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
...impunity with which the terrorists have struck over the past five months has hit West Germany's business community hard. Several businessmen last week recalled an odd incident. After the head of Germany's Dresdener Bank, Jurgen Ponto, was murdered in July, some of his friends gathered for a memorial service in Sensbachtal, where Ponto had kept a hunting lodge. Looking around the room, which contained some of the biggest names in German industry and politics, one man remarked, "The next victim of terrorism is almost certainly standing in this room now." The speaker was Hanns-Martin Schleyer...
...Since Ponto's death, virtually every company has strengthened its security, hired additional guards and installed monitoring cameras. Agencies providing bodyguards for hire, and other private security services, are doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running...