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- <text id=90TT1623>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: World Notes:Terrorism
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 35
- World Notes
- TERRORISM
- Out of the Woodwork
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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