Word: schleyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first anniversary of the terrorist kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His widow and children and the relatives of his slain chauffeur and bodyguards attended a ceremony at the simple stone monument on the Cologne street where the abduction took place. Hundreds of other citizens laid flowers at the foot of the wooden cross erected at the site a few days after the shooting. But accompanying the sorrow was a jittery feeling that radiated throughout the city and across West Germany. Many of the Red Army Faction, whose members had killed Schleyer, were still at large, and no one could...
...thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...
West German police tend to discount the theory of a connection between the Schleyer and Moro cases, though they do not rule out the possibility that the two terrorist groups may have ties. Italian investigators think there is more to it than that. Following the return of two investigating magistrates who cross-checked their evidence in West Germany, Italian authorities now believe that the accumulated clues indicate the direct participation or at least the active support of German organizations in the Moro affair. The Italians are working on the hypothesis, moreover, that the ten-to twelve-man hit team that...
With reason. While the U.S. has not experienced anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...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...