Bad Homburg, an elite spa north of Frankfurt, is home to many of West Germany's top executives and bankers. Last Thursday morning the most eminent of the lot, Alfred Herrhausen, 59, chief executive of Deutsche Bank and personal economic adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, left his home at the usual time, shortly after 8:30 a.m., and set out for Frankfurt's financial district in his armored, chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 500SE, escorted by two other automobiles with four bodyguards. The car had traveled 550 yds. along a tree-lined street when a tremendous explosion hurled it into the air, reducing it to a charred, smoking...
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