European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May terrorists grow report warns red army faction has new new weapons Bonn a Interior minister Friedrich Zimmer Mann warned thursday that the left Wing terrorist red army faction had gathered strength in 1984 and reestablished its capability for the terrorist which has declared War on imperialism and German has overcome a weak Zimmermann by gathering new Mem Bers and new he spoke at a news conference As he released the Interi or ministry annual report on left and righting extremists in the red army faction was successful in As in earlier in overcoming Long lasting weak it continually replaced its aging cadres with new members from its support areas and therefore reestablished its capability of Zimmermann the Raf also has renewed its material basis that had suffered a Strong blow with the discovery of 13 arms depots in the fall of he with its revived the red army faction must continue to be considered a weighty the Interior ministry report but the Overall number of left Wing terrorist attacks in Germany committed by the faction and other groups Actu ally decreased last from 215 to Zimmermann told membership in left Wing extremist groups Rose slightly from in 1983 to in he the red army formerly known As the Baader Meinhoff dates Back to 1969 and has gone through several generations of its main targets remain representatives and installations of the army and the Federal West German army As Well As members of the Justice proves the Interior ministry report the which had been relatively quiet since used a hunger strike by its approximately 30 imprisoned members from 4 of last year to 5 of this year to gather new sympathy and according to the Interi or during the hunger terrorists in Germany committed 39 bomb and arson attacks against Industrial and military the report the High Point of the violence occurred on when Munich industrialist Ernst Zimmermann was murdered in his the red army faction claimed responsibility for the killing and called off the hunger strike by its imprisoned members shortly no one has been arrested in connection with the Zim Mermann he was shot after the red army fac Tion and Frances terrorist action direct announced in january that they would join together to fight nato and other imperialist the Raf has about 20 hardcore commandos who plan and carry out terrorist and several Hundred an Interior ministry spokesman that number is about the same As in previous despite the arrests last year of seven prominent members slabs of Concrete fill the indoor swimming Pool at where 12 people died when the roof 12 bodies recovered after Pool roof collapses Switzerland up Rescue workers Friday recovered the bodies of 12 swimmers who were crushed or drowned when a Concrete roof collapsed into an in door swimming a police statement said seven of the Vic Tims were Between 12 and 20 years among the dead were a Mother and her two children who were swimming about 40 people were in the Pool when the roof fell in at a police spokesman the victims were either crushed by the huge slabs of Concrete or drowned under the he All of those killed were Swiss who lived in or near a town of uster is about 12 Miles East of police listed the victims by age and but not by they included four schoolgirls aged 12 to a woman student aged a 15yearold Schoolboy and an 18yearold male the other victims were two aged 32 and a 23yearold Secretary and two aged 36 and the local Public prosecutor ordered a full calling for the assistance of experts from the Swiss Federal government department which is responsible for testing building Wilfried a former town offi said the roof Over the 25meter first opened in had started sagging visibly three years but surveyors who were brought in recently reported that there was no danger of Bachofen told a preliminary conclusion by engineers interviewed by local newspapers and Swiss radio was that the Metal roof supports had Given Way because of one survivor was Faenzi the Swiss women Champion for the 200meter she was not hit by the falling Concrete slabs and managed to get out of the she was treated for local officials said the roof did not col lapse in one but came Down in slabs weighing 440 pounds per Square Rescue work went on through the night As water was pumped out of the Pool and pneumatic drills were used to break up the slabs of it was impossible to Drain the Pool nor Mally because rubble blocked the water officials of the he members of the red army faction robbed a savings Bank in Wuerzburg on March taking Marks and a weapons store in the Ludwigshafen area on seizing 22 pistols and the Interior ministry report these crimes helped create the material prerequisites for the life in the underground and for the preparation and carrying out of terrorist it the report noted a failed attempt by the gang to blow up a nato officers1 training school in Oberammergau on a Large bomb was found and detonated before it could explode had it the results would have been the report a spate of murderous terrorist attacks in january and february moved France and West Germany to pledge to join forces against the terrorist four prominent Raf members were sentenced in March and april to life in prison for the kidnappings and murders of prominent germans in the the sentences were the stiffest Ever handed Down by German courts against members of the Zimmermann also noted that the number of members of righting extremist including in Ger Many Rose slightly from in 1983 to in but the number of violent crimes committed by the right Wing extremists was Down from 81 in 1983 to 74 in Only 11 of those crimes were classified As terrorist he news update chemical Gas victim London up a London Coroner has concluded that an 18 year old iranian Soldier treated in Britain after being injured in the persian Gulf War died from exposure to a chemical the Coroner recorded a verdict of death As a result of enemy action and said the Man suffered skin Burns suffered from chemical Gas on the sol the Man was one of 11 suspected casualties of chemical warfare treated in All 11 were iranians who had been fighting in the War be tween Iran the condition of the others has and All but one has been testimony retracted Taiwan a an underworld Leader has retracted in court his claim that the former Mili tary intelligence chief ordered him to murder a chinese american Jour describing his earlier testimony As a Chen was testifying be fore the Taiwan High which is reviewing a life sentence imposed on him last month by the Taipei District court for crash settlement Minneapolis a the first claims settlement arising from a Galaxy airlines plane crash totals and will go to the two Chil Dren of a woman who was among the 70 people killed in the an at Torney Only one person survived the 21 crash of the Lockheed Electra Turboprop As it was taking off from Reno Cannon 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