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- WORLD, Page 35World NotesTERRORISMOut of the Woodwork
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- The rapid political and economic unification of the two
- Germanys is paying an unexpected dividend: a combined attack
- on terrorism. After pooling information from West Germany and
- the impounded files of the now defunct East German secret
- police, the Stasi, East German authorities this month arrested
- seven people believed to be members of West Germany's notorious
- Red Army Faction, whose bloody campaign claimed more than 20
- lives between 1970 and 1978.
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- The most notable arrest came on June 6, when police seized
- Susanne Albrecht, 39, one of some two dozen R.A.F. members on
- West Germany's most wanted list. Albrecht, who is married to
- an East German scientist, is accused of taking part in the 1977
- killings of Jurgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank, and
- industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. East German Interior
- Minister Peter-Michael Diestel said the arrests provided
- evidence of a "devilish connection" between the R.A.F. and the
- Stasi -- a connection that is now certain to be further
- investigated.
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