Word: schleyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Early this week, they were flown to Aden, South Yemen, after being refused permission to land in Oman. They faced the possibility of death if the skyjackers' demands were not met. Their fate, moreover, was perilously linked with that of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the West German industrialist kidnaped in early September and held captive by West German terrorists...
Despite secret contacts between the government and the terrorists through an intermediary, Swiss Lawyer Denis Payot, fear grew that Schleyer's chance of survival was slim. The terrorists had demanded that eleven jailed terrorists, including the leaders of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen, be given safe passage to a country of their choice, either Libya or South Yemen. In letters to West German newspapers, TV and radio stations, Schleyer's kidnapers threatened that unless their demands were met he would be shot...
...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...
...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 into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...