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Adding to Khomeini's troubles, police in West Germany arrested the Ayatullah's son-in-law, Sadegh Tabatabai, 39, upon his arrival in Düsseldorf two weeks ago. A "special ambassador," Tabatabai helped negotiate the release of the U.S. hostages in 1981. He was charged with illegal possession of 3.3 lbs. of raw opium...
...bomb blasts came in calculated sequence, each explosion hitting at symbols of the American presence in West Germany. The first four exploded at U.S. Army bases near Frankfurt. Two others damaged the Düsseldorf offices of U.S. computer firms, IBM and Control Data Corp. Then came a blast at the German-American Institute in Tübingen. In a letter to the West German press, the Revolutionary Cells, a leftist terrorist group, announced that the explosions were a mere foretaste of what President Ronald Reagan can expect when he arrives in West Germany this week. Said the letter: "This...
...spectators' gallery of a Düsseldorf courtroom erupted with shouts of "Scandal!" and "An offense against the victims!" as the sentences were read out last week to the defendants, seven men and two women, all age 60 or older. One got a life sentence; another was acquitted; the rest received jail terms ranging from three to twelve years. Thus ended the longest (5½ years), and probably the last, major West German trial for Nazi war crimes against concentration camp inmates. The nine were all guards at the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland between 1941 and 1944. They...
...Poland is like a company that is no longer capable of selling its stock on the free market," complains a senior banker in Düsseldorf. "The problem goes beyond the banks. Poland is in default already." More discreet financiers might find that view extreme, but none would deny the gravity of Poland's economic and financial crisis...
...promised to stabilize West German oil prices. Together with some party moderates, the leftists objected that the Saudi sale would violate West Germany's longstanding policy against supplying arms to "areas of tension" outside NATO. Schmidt stood firm. Karl-Heinz Hansen, an S.P.D. left-winger from Düsseldorf, went so far as to denounce Schmidt's policies as "filth...