European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 19, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bonn strike Force Gsg 9. Unit that freed Hijack hostage formed after Munich massacre of 72 Bonn a the successful attack Early tuesday on air hijackers holding 86 hostages in Somalia was the baptism of fire for an elite strike Force formed in 1972 after the Munich olympic massacre. The 176-Man unit officially Border guard group 9 but better known by its German initials Gsg 9, had never been used in Battle against terrorists. But through its rigorous training pro Gram the unit had earned the respect of the israelis and others skilled in anti terror  Are kept ready for deployment within 15  West German government has with these troops a Trump card in the struggle against terrorism said maj. Gen. Zvi bar commander of the israeli Border police in a recent newspaper interview. I consider the training and tactics of this unit to be the Best there Are at this time this is also the opinion of american  minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher ordered formation of the unit while he was Interior minister soon after 17 terrorists and israeli athletes perished in a wild shootout at an Airport near Munich. The bloody Climax to the Munich Inci Dent highlighted the problems which conventional police forces unaccustomed to dealing with terrorists face in such situations the government said. During the Munich incident police were unsure How Many terrorists they were dealing with and lacked sufficient communications gear to coordinate their operations. Authorities decided to deceive the terrorists by flying them to a military Field at Furstenfeld Bruck ostensibly to catch a anti terrorist cop Gerd Boeden shown Here in a file photo Heads the West German Federal criminal police s terrorism depart ment. Boeden is shown at a press con Ference in Frankfurt last May about four weeks after terrorists murdered chief West German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback in Karlsruhe and fled without a Trace. The murder was one of a series of terrorist acts this year which culminated in thursday s seizure of a Lufthansa jetliner and its liberation Early tuesday by a West German strike Force. Associated press photo larger plane for a flight out of the country. Instead sharpshooters were supposed to shoot the terrorists on the Tarmac. But officials underestimating the number of terrorists stationed too few sharpshooters around the Field. When the shooting started the terrorists killed All nine israelis. Five terrorists and one German policeman were killed during the shootout. Two israelis had been killed earlier in the olympic Village. A Munich newspaper the Sud Deutsche Zeitung said in an editorial that West Ger Many would emerge a loser in clashes with terrorists. A band of stubborn desperadoes succeeded in forcing the City and country into a situation from which there was no Way  Gsg 9 was created from West Ger Many s elite Federal Border guards a paramilitary Force under the control of the Interior ministry. The commander is Ulrich Wegener. West Germany has spent 10 million Marks about $4.5 million outfitting the unit with such James Bond gadgetry As shoulder holsters special cars and communications  of the unit All volunteers handpicked for physical stamina and emotional stability train at their base near Bonn in hand to hand combat Small arms explosives Aerial assault and other com Mando skills. Their Basic training course lasts nine weeks followed by 13 weeks of special training which also includes courses in such Fields As psychology and Law. Although they have never been deployed As an Antiterrorist unit before they Are kept in readiness by serving As body guards for top Bonn officials. A Victory the world could cheer germans Are proud of commando action by Joseph b. Fleming Bonn up that s the Way to treat the Swine Rose Finger a 66-year-old housewife  federation of German policemen put it More gently but the meaning was the same this courageous and determined action can set the Standard for the fight against International  West Germany breathed More than a sigh of Relief at the liberation of 86 hos tages on a hijacked Lufthansa Airliner and the overpowering of the terrorists in a German commando raid. It reacted with Pride at the nation s first major Victory in its 10-year fight against terrorists and had a Hope that authorities might get the upper hand in the 10-year struggle against Urban guerrillas trying to destroy the state. The Pride was doubly important for a people whose past victories were lamented by the rest of the world. Now it could cheer the men of the Frontier troops who stormed the Boeing 737 at Mogadishu air Field and have the knowledge the rest of the world was cheering too. At last military heroes without a nazi  year had been a Nightmare for the Federal Republic of  april 8 terrorists murdered Siegfried Buback the chief Federal prosecutor on a Karlsruhe Street and escaped without a Trace. On july 30 terrorists walked into the Home of Jirgen Ponto head of the Dresdner Bank the country s second biggest killed him during a Kidnap attempt and escaped. On sept. 5 terrorists seized Hanns Martin Schleyer As chairman of the Fede ration of German Industry the voice of big business on a Cologne Street. Then the hijacking last thursday. Would it never end germans asked. Would Bonn Ever act did it have the guts to act germans woke up with a sense of disbelief when they heard the news. We have Learned from the israelis Dieter Klein a 37-year-old physicist said. We can fight Back. We do not have to be  Wasch Lappen was rags is the German equivalent for Doormat. All hostages freed Banne lined the Bonn newspaper Bonner Mundschau. It added great Success of  it was. Attack on jet8 police state called Only sure answer Washington up an authority on terrorists warns that nothing Short of a police state can forestall terrorist tactics and urges governments to ready methods for defusing the  or. Frederick j. Hacker a los Angeles psychiatrist and author who has aided authorities in several of the most spectacular terrorist hostage cases stressed the need for Good Faith negotiation rather than threats or the use of Force. I think that Urban guerrilla warfare is indeed a danger mainly because terrorism up to now has been so spectacularly successful Hacker said in an interview in the november Issue of Penthouse Maga  can easily imagine All sorts of disgruntled groups such As the puerto rican Independence movement and other people who feel they have been unjustly treated using the techniques of Urban guerrilla  Hacker said monday the Only Way to defuse the danger is through a social policy worked out Well in Advance. The key to Success is a firm general policy that uses violence Only As a last resort Hacker said. Two Points should be considered absolutely non negotiable he said providing terrorists with additional arms and turn ing Over to them anyone hostile to their  else should be negotiable at least in principle he said. Hacker also cautioned that terrorist groups already Are circulating instruction books for making nuclear weapons and May someday try to hold a City hostage with the threat of a homemade atomic sex  regulatory commission experts have said there is Little Chance that a group of terrorists could successfully build and set off a nuclear weapon. But University students have devised plans for crude atomic bombs and Hacker indicated an atomic threat by terrorists might have to be taken  have to assume that they will make use of All the improved technology including the use of atomic material or at least the threat of it. There Are already instruction manuals circulating among these Radi Cal groups that outline How it could be  when you think in terms of nuclear weapons it is particularly foolish to refuse to negotiate with terrorists he  a group of terrorists disclosing credibly that they Are flying Over new York with an atom bomb. Are you going to say sorry i can t talk to you because it s against my principles ? it would be  was to succeed Bonn up West Germany s com Mando raid to free the Lufthansa hostages at Mogadishu was the third such Success Ful operation against a hijacked Jet. It most resembled the july 4, 1976, israeli raid at Entebbe in Uganda. But that was directed at an Airport building where those hostages were held not at an air plane. Two of the 102 Entebbe hostages died along with seven guerrillas one israeli sol Dier and More than 20 ugandan soldiers. But the Mogadishu raid was very Simi Lar because it involved specially trained commandos operating far from their own  two previous successful raids on an actual aircraft were on May 9, 1972, and aug. 23,1976.in the first operation israeli troops freed 90 hostages aboard a hijacked Bel Gian Sabena Boeing 707 at Lod Airport at Tel Aviv. Two of the four Arab hijackers were killed As Well As one woman passenger and one israeli Soldier. The second operation involved the hijacking by three palestinians of an egyptian Airliner on a Domestic flight. Egyptian commandos raided the plane at Luxor. One Hijacker was killed. In both operations the commandos were disguised As Airport technicians. Sex Northwestern head Dies Evanston 111. A or. James Roscoe Miller 71, president of Northwestern University from 1949 until 1969, died