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...made on a housing development financed by Citicorp, a large private banking firm. The voluntary payments are made on an energy plant project and a housing development. Harvard chose to commit itself to making those payments in return for city zoning exemptions that made the construction possible, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said this week...
...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...
...academics complain that in its enthusiasm for order, the government has been steadily eroding civil liberties. Now, in the face of a real threat from a small band of terrorists, they fear it will seize the opportunity to clamp down on the liberal movement. Says a leftist member of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party: "The country is in political trouble, it is in economic trouble, and it needs some elements to blame...
...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...