Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within hours of the rescue, three members of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found dead in their prison cells in Stuttgart-almost certainly as the result of a suicide pact. Their anarchist allies in the Red Army Faction took up the cry of "political murder," and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned his countrymen to expect revenge...
...inquiry into the deaths of Andreas Baader, founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, and gang members Gudrun Enselin and Jean Carl Raspe continues in Stuttgart, Germany, this week West German federal police told The New York Times they believe terrorists planted the bomb which shattered a Rhineland village courthouse on Monday...
...come. The logic is fairly simple: if there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever seen," burbles one enthusiastic investor. "The nationalists seem to feel it too. They don't want to drive the white man out. They just want...
...Reaching into his rucksack, he pulled out a sawed-off submachine gun, shot one of the officers in the chest and wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped off in the direction of the highway to Stuttgart. As three carloads of Singen police gave chase, the pair took a wrong turn that brought them to a dead-end barrier near a brook. In the ensuing battle, a policeman grabbed the fleeing man's submachine gun and wounded the woman in the leg. The man was shot...
...trial cost an estimated $15 million, including nearly $7 million for the heavily guarded fortress that was specially built in Stuttgart to hold the defendants and conduct their trial. The building-girded by high steel fences, roofed with bombproof metal mesh and patrolled by policemen and attack dogs -was just one example of judicial overkill. Because of flagrantly injudicious behavior by the main trial judge (who was removed in January) and highly questionable bugging of the defendants and their lawyers during the trial, the verdict is sure to be appealed to higher courts...