Word: schleyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary security precautions were in response to the kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore...
...police station. It was signed Kommando Siegfried Hausner, R.A.F.-referring to a terrorist who lied after a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. The initials stand for the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin, the top members of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, who are serving life...
...freed terrorists, the kidnapers demanded that they be accompanied on their flight out of Germany by Swiss Human Rights Activist Denis Payot and by Protestant Theologian Martin Niemöller, 85, famed for his opposition to Hitler. (Niemöller said he was willing to go.) As proof that Schleyer was still alive the terrorists sent federal officials a video tape of the industrialist in captivity...
...does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would be speeded and prison terms toughened; 2) radical attorneys...
Such measures would bolster Bonn's police powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...