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...Schmidt and his top aides were determined not to give in to the skyjackers, just as they had refused to yield to the ransom demands of Schleyer's kidnapers. The only decision left was when and to where the commandos would be dispatched. Largely because of a press blackout that had been in effect since Schleyer was seized, the government's deliberations were shrouded in hermetic secrecy. West German morale plummeted?particularly after news arrived of Pilot Schumann's death. But then came Mogadishu. Radio stations interrupted regular programming and punctuated coverage of the rescue and the return...
...group taking credit for the abduction. "After 43 days," he said, "we have put an end to the miserable and corrupt existence of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His death does not measure up to our grief and anger after the slaughter at Mogadishu and Stammheim." The caller then said Schmidt could "take delivery [of Schleyer] in Charles Péguy Street in Mulhouse." which is about ten miles from the German border. There, in the trunk of a green Audi sedan, police found Schleyer's corpse. Medical examination later disclosed that he had been killed shortly after the word was flashed...
Security experts agree and have warned Schmidt to expect what they call a "spontaneous reaction for the freedom of other jailed terrorists." Even though the Baader-Meinhof gang has been largely destroyed, an estimated 120 hard-core terrorists remain at large in Germany; many of them claim affiliation with the Red Army Faction, the country's most dangerous guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says...
...Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, backed by his Cabinet and by opposition leaders, alerted Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (G.S.G. 9), the elite commando unit of West Germany's Border Protection Force. Thirty members of the unit left immediately for Cyprus aboard a Lufthansa 707, Flight 1231. But Flight 1231, in a near miss, arrived at Larnaca just as Flight 181 was taking off. Flight 1231 flew to Ankara to await further instructions, while the hijacked plane flew on to Bahrain and Dubai...
...Schmidt also sent his chief troubleshooter, State Secretary Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 55, to the Middle East. Aboard Wischnewski's 707-code-named Oscar X Ray-were 31 additional troops of G.S.G. 9 as well as the unit's commander, Ulrich Wegener. At dawn Saturday, Wischnewski reached Dubai and went to the control tower to talk with the hijackers by radio; he had no success...