WEST GERMANY: Red Roses from Roter Morgen

WEST GERMANY Red Roses from Roter Morgen

German terrorists strike at a new kind of victim

It was an inconvenient moment for late-afternoon callers. Frankfurt Banker Jurgen Ponto, 53, and his wife Ines were packing to catch a vacation flight to Rio de Janeiro. Still, the visitor was special —Susanne Albrecht, 26, Ponto's godchild and the daughter of a Hamburg lawyer who had been his boyhood friend. She was bearing a bouquet of red roses. So it was that the chairman of the Dresdener Bank, West Germany's second largest, stopped packing long enough to receive Albrecht at his 30-room villa in the...

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