Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speculation about the terrorists' connections increased after Bonn announced that four of West Germany's 20 most wanted terrorists had been arrested in the Yugoslav city of Zagreb. Authorities there jailed them for entering the country illegally. The Yugoslavs identified the four with the help of the computerized, increasingly efficient West German anti-terrorist police...
...signed "Brigitte." The swallower insisted that he was simply a messenger, and that the note was about the "Russell tribunal" (a radical political colloquium in Frankfurt, named for British Lord Bertrand Russell, that discussed West German civil rights violations). He was released, but the curiosity lingered on. Could the Zagreb Brigitte also be the Milanese Brigitte...
Wisniewski was speedily handed over to West German officials. The Zagreb case did not work quite so smoothly. Yugoslav authorities indicated that they would turn over the four West German terrorists. But they also made clear that in return, Belgrade wanted action on longstanding extradition requests involving "Yugoslav citizens who had committed political terrorism against Yugoslavia." Specifically, they wanted eight Croatian nationalists who have sought political refuge in West Germany. Although the vast majority of the 20,000 or so Croatian emigres in the Federal Republic are politically inactive, there have been incidents in which Yugoslav diplomats were murdered, wounded...
...management has been decentralized. Initiative, hard work and quality output have been rewarded with generous bonuses and wage hikes. As a result, Yugoslav plants vastly outperform the state-owned enterprises in most other Communist-ruled countries. They also turn out an abundance of consumer products that make Belgrade, Zagreb and other large Yugoslav cities look more West European than Balkan...
Reconstructing events, Yugoslav authorities were told that the DC-9 had been cleared shortly before the crash to climb to 35,000 ft. But the area around Zagreb-a key sky junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude...