COME out," shouted the policeman through a loudspeaker. "Your chances are zero." The defiant answer from the men trapped in a garage in a residential section of Frankfurt last week was a hail of gunfire. The police, supported by a lumbering armored car, poured bullets and tear-gas canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed by West Germany's...
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