Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 against all of us." He assured West Germans-who according to recent polls support a tougher government response to terrorism...
...many prominent Germans, life resembled a state of siege. Parties, theater events and public appearances were canceled. President Walter Scheel dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
After receiving word of the abduction Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dropped all other work to take personal command of a special "crisis staff' composed of high officials, security police and crime experts. A nationwide alert was ordered, and Schmidt made a televised appeal for all Germans to cooperate in the search...
...Criminal Office agreed to "No 5." After the government released the kidnapers' letter, puzzled West Germans learned that the number referred to a specific demand of the terrorists. Item No. 5 was that the government publish the letter, which concluded with a cool insult: "We are assuming that Schmidt will make every effort to clarify his relationship with this fat magnate of the cream of national industry...
...boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard on its crucial economic accelerator, may finally be getting ready to apply the gas. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, worried by new forecasts that set West German growth this year at 3.5% to 4% (v. his own target of 5% last May), is in the midst of a full-scale review of stimulus alternatives...