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...unexpected source: Israel. Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy obtained from an Israeli short-wave radio enthusiast a tape recording of fragments of the communications he had monitored. They were between Flight 181, two other planes carrying the West German negotiator and anti-terrorist commandos, Lufthansa headquarters and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's crisis group, which was directing the operation...
...dramatic rescue came less than a month after the Tokyo government had surrendered to the ransom demands of five Japanese Red Army terrorists who had skyjacked a JAL jet with 156 passengers aboard. The determination and courage of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who ordered the commando attack, brought jubilant congratulatory messages from many of the world's leaders. President Jimmy Carter praised the West Germans for the "courage of their decision." Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, whose country mounted the successful rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe Airport on July 3, 1976, cabled, "It was indeed a salvation...
...Schmidt was more than ready to fight. He immediately ordered postwar Germany's biggest man hunt in an attempt to track down the murderers. Three million WANTED posters flooded the country, carrying the photos of the ten women and six men suspected of being connected with the Schleyer killing. These faces were splashed across newspaper front pages and broadcast by every TV station. The prime suspect was Friederike Krabbe, 27, who is believed to have ordered the industrialist's murder. Police vans, meanwhile, began cruising through cities, their loudspeakers blaring pleas for every citizen to aid in the search. Barricades...
Hours after ordering the man hunt, Schmidt appeared before a special session of the Bundestag. He warned that "terrorism is by no means dead, neither in Germany nor anywhere else in the world." Earlier in the week, the Paris daily Figaro had headlined: THE LIFE OF EVERY NATION IS AT STAKE. If that was the case, Schmidt had shown that his government was prepared to fight for Germany's life...
Following Schleyer's kidnaping, Schmidt had set up two crisis staffs that met frequently in marathon sessions, at the heavily guarded Chancellery in Bonn. Elected officials and political leaders spent countless hours there in conferences, and the normal functions of the government slowed discernibly. The Bundestag dealt with only the most pressing business; the Chancellor canceled a state visit to Poland and a number of speaking engagements across the country...