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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...woman blazing away with pistols at a newspaper pinned to a tree. The trio turned their weapons on the police, killing one officer and wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Industrialist Harms-Martin Schleyer and the deaths of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and Banker Jürgen Ponto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: Closing In on an Elusive Enemy | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...capture of Knoll and Speitel was the latest in a month-long string of triumphs for West German antiterrorist forces. After more than a year of intensive man hunting, they are closing in on the country's elusive urban guerrillas. Of the 25 most wanted terrorists, twelve have now been apprehended or slain. Among the other coups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: Closing In on an Elusive Enemy | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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