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...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...
Overkill. Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her prison cell in 1976. Holger Meins, another defendant, had died before the trial began following a hunger strike. But Andreas Baader and his two remaining confederates, after a nearly two-year trial, finally heard judgment pronounced last week in Stuttgart. Baader, now 33, Gudrun Ensslin, 36, and Jan-Carl Raspe, 32, were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years-a judicial tactic to minimize the possibility of parole...
...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...
...dollars through all that and you come out with nothing on the bottom line," says Goldman. Sometimes even less. Last year Hurok's loss on the widely acclaimed visit of the Bolshoi Opera was about $400,000. Hurok would still like to bring over the Bolshoi and Stuttgart ballets, but only if it can renegotiate more favorable contracts...
...recreational rooms provided by the Communists for Italian workers in northern Europe, special campaign tape cassettes are played over the public address systems and party officials from Rome are addressing workers' groups in Stuttgart, Ulm, Luxembourg and Liegè. Working through local trade unions, the P.C.I, has also tried to get foreign employers to give their Italian employees time off to vote...